Thank you so much, District VI constituents and other supporters!
Traci K Toguchi for Honolulu City Council District VI Video featuring Kalihi Valley Constituent Debbie
Question of the Day Video: What are examples of successful traffic safety [controls] in municipalities?
Community Meet and Greet
Thank you so much to District VI constituents for taking the time to come out to my Community Meet and Greet! I am humbled and grateful to have been able to meet and talk with you. Thank you also to the volunteers who helped make the event a success, who include District VI constituents! Thank you again to each of you.
Community Meet and Greet Video Clips
Grateful to Jon Paul Akeo for capturing “Got to Be Real”
Zanuck Lindsey (guitar), Gil Farias (bass), John Loo (keyboards), and Paul Nishimoto (drums)
Thank you so much, District VI constituents!
All of this would not have been possible without the tireless help and support of my parents, family and friends and campaign team, including wise counsel, and supporters who have helped me campaign through volunteering, contributions, and encouragement since I pulled/filed papers to run for this seat in late April/early May.
Thank you also to the other candidates in this race, including their supporters. I deeply appreciate the love and concern we share for this District, and hope to work together to help the people of this District.
As we head to the General Election, I look forward to continuing to hear from and work with the constituents and stakeholders of this District to help make it a safer and better place to live.
I humbly ask for your vote in the November 8, 2022 General Election.
Thank you again!
Traci
“Traci has been the go-to-person with a proven track record of hard work in helping to resolve the many challenging City issues in my area. Traci’s resume shows she is the most qualified candidate for our District VI Council seat.”
- Sylvia Young, Pauoa
“I’m not very political, but I have to say I’m very thankful for everything Traci Toguchi has done for my family and community. I wrote countless letters to various city and state agencies for assistance with a safety concern at a crosswalk in my neighborhood. No one ever responded or took any action. It was only after bringing this issue to Traci… Carol Fukunaga’s aide that our issue was resolved. I am forever grateful for her help and proud to put up my FIRST political sign at our house. VOTE FOR TRACI TOGUCHI... !
- Mr. Lum, Liliha
“Traci has been a God-send. Regarding a noise issue, she was persistent, consistent, had a sincere concern about our living conditions, and got the issue resolved. She researched, followed up, talked with the City Department of Planning and Permitting, HPD, etc. She’s very detail-oriented. It took a while, but she was persistent. She’s on our side. She helped make life livable.”
- Ms. Abe, Downtown Honolulu
“After much deliberation and vetting of the issues most pressing in our neighborhood, I think Traci Toguchi is the best candidate to replace Council Member Carol Fukunaga… [who] is terming out… The great news about Traci is that she is aware of the Pacific Heights Road concerns such as traffic safety, crime and Monster Houses. In fact, she has worked on these issues as a member of CM Fukunaga’s staff over the past few years. I first met Traci over 20 years ago on the movie set of the independent film Picture Bride, the award winning story of… many AJA plantation workers... She is talented, hardworking and bright to say the least.”
- Dean Sakamoto, Pacific Heights
For more quotes, see Constituent Support for Traci
Honolulu City Councilmember Candidacy Announcement Miss Hawaii 75th Anniversary Congratulations: Congratulatory video and update since serving as Miss Hawaii 1995 to serving the City and County of Honolulu as Legislative Analyst for Councilmember District VI, the office for which I am now running to serve as its Councilmember.
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About
November 8, 2022 - Traci Kimiko Toguchi was born in Nuuanu and primarily grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii (Traci and her family lived in Gardena, California for a year and a half). She is a Downtown Honolulu resident with roots in District VI and paralegal by trade, and currently serves as Legislative Analyst in the Honolulu City Council District VI office, having served as a staff member since July 2020, helping to resolve issues and concerns for the district’s constituents. (You may remember Traci as the child actor from the blockbuster hit “The Karate Kid Part II” (with a recent cameo role in the Netflix spinoff “Cobra Kai”), singer (including winning the state Brown Bags to Stardom talent competition, and the KZOO Radio Karaoke Taikai (youth division)), and former Miss Hawaii.)
This is Traci’s first run for public office. With respect to government experience, she has current working City experience, as she has been working for the City and County of Honolulu for four and a half years--at the City Council since January 2018 beginning with the Office of Council Services, then the District IV office (as Legislative Analyst) for all but one and a half years while serving as an Information Specialist II for the City Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation. She has also worked for the State of Hawaii Legislature Senate and House of Representatives (as Office Manager, Legislative Aide, and Committee Clerk), Department of Accounting and General Services State Procurement Office, and Department of Budget and Finance Employees' Retirement System. And Traci has federal working experience as a verbatim hearing recorder for the U.S. Social Security Administration Office of Disability Adjudication and Review-Honolulu.
Additionally, Toguchi has been a small business owner* for more than 15 years. She has worked in various capacities, including being a probate researcher at the Oahu First Circuit Court, special events officer for Central Pacific Bank (Honolulu), legal and executive assistant and secretary at law firms in New York City, Los Angeles and Honolulu, executive director for the James Bradley Peace Foundation (Rye, New York), and membership administrator for the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles.
Traci is grateful to learn so much from the current District VI Councilmember Carol Fukunaga and play an active role in helping resolve issues throughout the district. Many of these issues have been longstanding for years, and since they will not be resolved by the end of this coming term, Traci says she can also help address continuity concerns.
Traci believes her background as a paralegal (through experience and education) helps her more effectively help constituents, under the counsel of the City Council's and City's attorneys. As a member of the Hawaii Paralegal Association, Traci participates in ongoing continuing legal education, and completes additional certifications in areas including contracts, updates in respective laws, and judicial processes.
Additionally, Traci believes that her work experience in the public (city, state, federal), private (in a wide array of industries, business structures and sizes), nonprofit, and small business sectors (including as a small business owner, and from two generations of a family food business), and professional entertainer and former “starving artist” in Honolulu, New York City and Los Angeles help her better understand different perspectives and have compassion to literally empathize with others because she has likely been in their (or very similar) shoes.
Traci enjoys working diligently and thoroughly to serve the constituents of District VI alongside government agency officials and community stakeholders, with whom she's developed relationships, to effectively connect constituents with city, state and federal services to address their issues of concern. It's what Traci says motivates her to get out of bed in the morning.
* Traci Toguchi, Inc. provides Entertainment (record label and recording/performing artist, songwriting publishing, voice and acting instructor), Marketing (strategic planning, event and project coordination, public relations), Administration (including legal services for attorneys), and Web (administration/development) services.