Kotex She Can Awards

No. Name Award Year Achieved 1 Dr. Nur Amalina Che Bakri First Malaysian to score 17 A1s in the SPM exams 2004 2 June Low First Malaysian woman to host Malaysia's first sex education show 2015 3 Cassandra Hsiao First Malaysian to be accepted into all 8 Ivy League universities in the United States 2017 4 Heidy Quah First Malaysian to ever receive the Queen’s Young Leader Award from Her Majesty The Queen (Asia - Human Rights category) 2017 5 Janushaa Bala Krishnan Muthiah First Malaysian woman to be accepted into the United States Naval Academy 2018 6 Reimena Yee First Malaysian to have a comic book nominated for an Eisner Award 2018 7 Joanne Kam First female stand-up comedian in Malaysia late 1990s 8 Zee Avi First Malaysian singer to have an album on the US Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart and to top a Billboard chart (Heatseekers Album) 2009 9 Yuna First Malaysian singer listed in the US Billboard Top 10 R&B Chart 2016 10 Siti Saleha One of the first Malaysian women to be regional brand ambassadors for an international sports brand 2016 First Malaysian to be part of the production of a box office record movie (Incredibles 2, which won 'Highest-grossing animated film' 11 Kiki Poh 2018 and 'highest-grossing computer animated film' in 2018) 12 Marina Chin First Malaysian woman to take part in the 400m hurdles 1976 13 Nicol Ann David First Malaysian and Asian woman to be ranked World number 1 in squash 2006 14 Marina Ahmad First Malaysian woman to summit Mount Everest 2007 15 Natasha Seatter First Malaysian woman to race in the Formula BMW Asia Pacific Series 2010 16 Ann Osman First Malaysian female professional mixed martial arts fighter 2013 17 Anita Yusof First Malaysian female to ride a motorcycle around the world solo 2017 18 Nor 'Phoenix' Diana First Hijab-wearing professional wrestler in Malaysia and in the world 2019 19 Joanna Soh First Malaysian woman to receive the YouTube Gold Play Button award N/A First Malaysian short track speed skater to be in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia 2020 list under the "Entertainment & Sports" category 20 Anja Chong 2017 and she is dubbed Malaysia's 'Ice Queen' A pioneer of the Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) that provides help and refuge to women fleeing from domestic violence in 21 Ivy Josiah 1982 Malaysia 22 Hannah Yeoh First Malaysian female state speaker 2013 23 Haylena Krishnamoorthy First Malaysian to participate in the Mission Siberia Trek to Raise Funds for Women for Women International (WfWI) 2015 24 Aida Arzahari First woman to command a Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) ship 2018 25 Amanda Wan First Malaysian female bartender to represent Malaysian on an international stage 2010 26 Diana Chan First Malaysian to win international cooking competition, MasterChef (i.e. Masterchef Australia) 2017 27 Chef Kwen Liew First Malaysian woman to receive a Michelin star 2018 28 Dr Wan Wardatul Amani Wan Salim First Malaysian to launch a NASA satellite to space 2014 First Malaysian and among the first group of scientists to prove Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves. This finding was 29 Hafizah Noor Isa 2016 coined as "the scientific breakthrough of the century" and Stephen Hawking it as "the holy grail of science" 30 Jecelyn Yeen First female Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Southeast Asia 2016 31 Dr. Magaret Sivapragasam First Malaysian to be named to the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists 2019 32 Purnima Wijendra First Malaysian to co-found a women-led coding school, TechSprint Academy to support women's advancement in technology 2020