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AT: Hello, everyone. Thank you, Bill, for that lovely introduction. And thank you all for being here. I also feel so honored to be able to talk to you guys about Kip and his legacy. And so I am, yes, one of the U-Dub interns working on the JACL Legacy Project, and I am a American Ethnic Studies and Human Evolutionary Biology major at U-Dub. And, if you guys would be willing to introduce yourself and tell us kind of how you worked with Kip and, yeah, like what you've done with him. And I will start with Janice.

JD: Thank you, everyone. Hi, my name is Janice Deguchi and I was a member and a board member of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League from 1990 to around 2001. And I had the honor and privilege to get to know Kip Tokuda in my formative years as a young twenty-something year old, just not even -- I wouldn't say leader, just a follower and a very impressionable young person. And I was so inspired by Kip, but so many other leaders, too, that were in JACL at that time. And it's an honor and privilege to share my reflections and memories of Kip with all of you.

AT: And would, let's see, Sharon Tomiko, would you like to speak?

STS: Thank you very much, Ana. My name is Sharon Tomiko Santos and I am very proud to know Kip as a longtime family friend, as a mentor, as a community leader, and as a colleague. I serve in the Washington State House of Representatives and I serve the same district that Kip served. And so he definitely was a leader in the family of legislators, and I'm looking forward to talking a little bit more about what an impact he has made in the state of Washington.

AT: Thank you, Sharon. Akemi, would you like to introduce yourself?

AM: Hi, everyone. My name is Akemi Matsumoto. I knew Kip mostly through JACL and ACLF, Asian Community Leadership Program. So we've worked together and we were contemporaries, but he had this long history in Seattle, and I was new to Seattle. And he certainly, among everybody else, just included me immediately. And I really appreciated being able to be a part of the community.

AT: Thank you. We also have Barbara with us today. I don't know if you'd like to introduce yourself. If not, that's also completely fine. And you're on mute, by the way.

BL: Sorry about that. I was with Kip for almost thirty years. He was my husband and father to our two girls, Molly and Pei-Ming.

AT: Well, thank you so much.

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