Jess was Kyodo External Director for 2006-2007 along with Janelle Lin. It was the year of re-invention, and re-invent we did.

[Kyodo Taiko at UCLA was the first collegiate taiko group to form in North America, founded under UCLA's Nikkei Student Union. Striving to live up to the group’s name, Kyodo Taiko functions as a family, sharing the joy and spirit of taiko with more and more of the surrounding community each year.]