an effort to update the Chamorro–English Dictionary. In 2009, she received a Governor's Humanities Award for her efforts to preserve local culture. Over several decades, she has worked with various regional organizations and served on different boards across the islands seeking to improve educational access and gender equity, including the Northern Marianas College Board of Regents and the Commission of the islands' public school system. She also helped establish the first public library in the Northern Mariana Islands and the NMI Museum of History and Culture. References Living people 1949 births People from Saipan Chamorro people Northern Mariana Islands people of Asian descent Northern Mariana Islands women University of Guam alumni University of Hawaiʻi alumni University of California, San Diego alumni Women educators