Pauline Woo Tsui

Tsui died in 2018. The following year, she was posthumously named as a member of the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. In 2020, the Chinese American Museum launched an event series in her honor.

In the early 1990s, after her husband's death, Tsui moved from Washington to Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2013, she co-wrote History of the Organization of Chinese American Women, which covers the first three decades of the organization's history, with Puanani Woo.

After a few years of organizing, Tsui co-founded the Organization of Chinese American Women in 1977, serving as its executive director from 1983 to 2007. The organization, which was also co-founded by the diplomat Julia Chang Bloch, aimed to offer education and training programs that would empower Chinese American women. It was initially affiliated with the Organization of Chinese Americans, but they eventually disaffiliated due to differing priorities.

On arriving the United States, she studied at Columbia University in New York, graduating with a master's degree in music education in 1947. She had initially planned to open a group of schools back in Shanghai. When her plans in Shanghai fell through due to the Chinese Communist Revolution, she instead moved to Washington, D.C. There, she worked at the United States Army Map Service for 30 years, where she would eventually serve as Federal Women's Program manager. She also met and married Tswen-ling Tsui, a diplomat for the Republic of China, in 1947, and the couple had two children.

Pauline Woo Tsui (October 2, 1920 – November 27, 2018) was a Chinese American anti-discrimination activist. As a co-founder of the Organization of Chinese American Women, she is considered a pioneer of Chinese women's rights in the United States.

Pauline Woo was born in Nanjing, China, in 1920. Her father, John Yien-teh Woo, had been born in Hawaii, so she held dual U.S. citizenship. The influential educator Kuo Ping-Wen was her uncle.