Board of Directors

  • Lindsay Nakashima, Executive Director

    KonMari Consultant,
    Nakashima Design

  • Mike Linder, President

    General Manager,
    Bar 17 Ranch & Arena

  • Simon Tse, Vice President

    Director for Space Research, Supercomputing
    Consultant

  • Mary Wingfield, Secretary

    Partner (Attorney), Hajjar Peters, LLP

  • Yoko Watabe, co-Treasurer

    Senior Budget Analyst, TDCJ-CJAD

  • Patrick Jones, co-Treasurer

    Educational Content Creator and Consultant, PatrickJMT, LLC

  • Sadami Sugimoto, Board Member

    Vice President,
    All Nippon Airways

  • Fumiko Futamura, Board Member

    Professor of Mathematics,
    Southwestern University

  • Margaret Robinson, Board Member

    Managing Principal,
    Asakura Robinson

  • Anell Mejia Chen, Board Member

    Independent Consultant,
    Human Resources & D&I

  • Meghan Frkuska, Board Member

    Privacy Counsel
    Texas Department of Public Safety

  • Katie Heywood, Board Member

    Senior Motion Designer, Solarwinds

  • Aerin Valkyrie, Board Member

    Administrative Assistant, Valor North Austin

  • Sora Valkyrie, Board Member

    Freelance Project Management

  • Tracie Whiting Kipper, Language Education Advisor

    Kansas City Art Institute

  • Nehaarika Shridhar, JASGA Intern

    University of Texas at Austin

  • Alan Cook Ambassador to the Taniguchi Garden

    Legislative Editor, Texas Senate

Honorary Members

  • Masahiro Sakurauchi

    Executive Director JETRO Houston

  • Kirk Watson

    Austin Mayor

  • Brigid Shea

    Travis County Commissioner

  • Frank C. Cooksey

    Former Austin Mayor

Special Advisor

The Honorable Hirofumi Murabayashi
Consul General

Consulate-General of Japan in Houston