Suzanne Ahn

Suzanne Insook Ahn M.D.
succumbed to lung cancer on June 22, 2003 in spite of never having smoked.
Skilled neurologist, dedicated advocate for social justice, thoughtful philanthropist, and prolific inventor, she was born in 1952, attended Booneville Elementary School in Arkansas, then graduated from Robert E.
Lee High School in Tyler Texas, The University of Texas-Austin and U.T.
Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
Advancing civil rights and social justice for Asian Americans was a battle she fought with great passion and courage.
She founded both the Dallas Summit and the Asian American Forum, and served on many boards including the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, Texas Air Quality Board, National Board of Girls Inc., Women's Center of Dallas, DeGolyer Library of Women of the Southwest and The Hockaday School.
Following is the text of an extraordinarily insightful and moving speech Ahn delivered to the Asian American Journalists Association on August 9, 2002, on the occasion of her endowing a prize in journalism.