What does Sen. Mazie Hirono now have in common with Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Ellen DeGeneres?

Hirono’s story was posted along with the others on a web site, which in the words of the organizers, “aims to become the largest video library of women’s stories ever told.”

The site is being put together by the producers of MAKERS, a three-hour documentary on the women’s movement that aired on PBS earlier this year.

Hirono’s story was added today, just before Independence Day. The timing was deliberate, “in order to celebrate Senator Hirono’s accomplishments, as an Asian-American female immigrant, and to share her own story following the recent vote of the historic immigration bill,” said Valentine O’Connor, a spokeswoman for the project.

In the video, Hirono talks about her own experience immigrating to the United States:

“In those days [1950s], we didn’t have ESL/’English as a Second Language’ Classes and you were just put into a classroom.  I’m glad that things have changed, where we understand the importance of culture, diversity and language. So I actually had to take Japanese in high school and in college, and unfortunately while I can understand more, I lost a lot of the speaking ability.”

— Kery Murakami