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Smith immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1964.  She received her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan and has a master’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley.

Born in Fukushima, Japan, Mazie Hirono was nearly eight years old when her mother brought her and her older brother to Hawaii to escape an abusive husband and seek a better life. Although the family struggled in those early years, the challenges taught Mazie the value of self-reliance.

When she arrived in America, Mazie knew no English and her family struggled to make ends meet. It was in elementary school that she got her first job, serving as a student cashier at lunch.  As a young person, Mazie decided early on that she wanted to give back to her community and help others get through hard times like those she experienced as a child.

Mazie served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1981 to 1994 and earned a reputation as an advocate for consumers and workers. In the legislature, she worked with her colleagues to reform auto, homeowners’, and employee compensation insurance.

After being elected as Hawaii’s lieutenant governor in 1994, Mazie led efforts to support Hawaii's vital tourism industry through visa reform. She also revamped Hawaii's workers' compensation law and saved businesses an estimated $85 million in its first year of operation. Mazie was also a leading advocate for improving early childhood education for Hawaii’s keiki.

Voters in Hawaii’s second congressional district elected Mazie to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. It was her family’s trials as a child that taught Mazie to be self-reliant, and in Congress, Mazie fought to make Hawaii energy and food independent too. While Hawaii is the most oil-dependent in the nation, Mazie knows first-hand that Hawaii residents are not a dependent people. As a congresswoman, she worked closely with leaders on both sides of the aisle to make Hawaii’s economy and way of life more sustainable by advocating for more research and development of renewable fuels, better funding for math and science education in Hawaii schools and improved transportation infrastructure on the islands.

The people of Hawaii elected Mazie to the Senate in November 2012 by a 25 point margin. Upon her swearing in, Mazie became Hawaii’s first female senator, the country’s first Asian-American woman senator and the first immigrant woman to ever serve in the upper chamber.

Mazie was appointed to sit on the Armed Services, Judiciary and Veterans Affairs committees. In the U.S. Senate, she will continue to be a strong voice for the people of Hawaii. She plans on using her committee assignments to make the case for why Hawaii should continue to play a vital role in our country’s national security. She will also continue her efforts to make Hawaii sustainable and energy independent and fight to cut government red tape that makes it harder for foreign tourists to visit Hawaii.

Mazie lives in Honolulu with her husband Leighton and mother Laura.

For more than twenty years, Mark Takano has worked to improve the lives of Riverside County residents, both as an elected official and as a teacher at Rialto High School.

Born and raised in Riverside, Mark's commitment to public service began at an early age. His family roots in Riverside go back to his grandparents who, along with his parents, were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II. After the war, these two families settled in Riverside County to rebuild their lives.

Mark attended La Sierra High School in the Alvord Unified School District, and in 1979 he graduated as the school's valedictorian. Mark attended Harvard College and received his bachelor's degree in Government in 1983. As a student, he bused tables to help make ends meet. During his senior year, he organized and co-founded Ride for Life, a transcontinental bicycle ride to benefit the international development agency Oxfam America.

Upon graduation, Mark returned home to Riverside and began teaching in the Rialto Unified School District in 1988. As a classroom teacher, Mark confronted the challenges in our public education system daily.

In 1990, Mark was elected to the Riverside Community College District's Board of Trustees. At RCC, Mark has worked with Republicans and Democrats to improve higher education for young people and job training opportunities for adults seeking to learn a new skill or start a new career. He was elected Board President in 1991 and helped the Board and the District gain stability and direction amid serious fiscal challenges.

During Mark’s long history of public service in Riverside County he has served on the Community Advisory Board of the Children's Spine Foundation and the Board of the Chancellor's Asian Pacific Islander Community Advisory Center at the University of California, Riverside. He has served as chairman of the Riverside Mayor's Task Force on the Digital Divide, as a charter member of the Association of Latino Community College Trustees, as a member of the Association of California Asian American Trustees and as a member of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education. He is a recipient of the Martin Luther King Visionaries Award.

Today, Mark Takano represents the people of Riverside, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley and Perris in the United States Congress. He serves on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.