Island Girl: USC's Brittany Jenkins Has Record-Label Ambitions

This summer, Helix-Scottie-turned-USC-Trojan Brittany Jenkins got to visit Taiwan. It was part of a scholarship known as LINC, a program that gives students hands-on international business experience.

“On the trip, we went to seven different companies in five days,” said Jenkins, who’d never before been outside the States.

They also had five days of leisure, which they spent traveling the island and visiting teahouses, museums and even a nightclub. They originally were supposed to go to Tokyo, but couldn’t after the damage caused by March’s record tsunami.

Jenkins, a music industry minor with plans to start a record label in the spring, says she didn’t mind the itinerary change.

“All I could think about was how pretty the mountains were and how pretty the country was,” she said. “Our second day, we visited the university, and I made tons of friends that I still keep up with on Facebook.”

It was there that Jenkins’ group submitted their case study project on how to increase Taiwan’s tourism. They won for design, something she attributes to the fact that people like things in bundles.

“We created this traveling package that included tickets to Taipei 101, a teahouse and the [Maokong Gondola],” she said. “We won a little prize and just bragging rights. It was great.”