ANNIE FUKUSHIMA is a doctoral student in Ethnic
Studies and a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women & Sexuality at
the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004, Fukushima graduated
from the University of Hawaii with High Honors in American Studies and
English. She also coordinated/directed grass root anti-trafficking initiatives
in Hawaii and in the Bay Area (2004-2006). As a scholar activist she
is currently the Programs Coordinator for Narika at Berkeley, a student
outreach and educational program on issues of sex exploitation, domestic
abuse, human trafficking and intersecting violences that impact the
community. Fukushima also co-organizes the San Francisco Fight Human
Trafficking Meet Up, a grassroots meet up whose goal is to fight human
trafficking through education. She also volunteers with Asian Women's
Shelter, San Francisco and serves as the Board of Advisor for Chinese
Adoptee Links International. She is also works to support an international
connection, Women for Genuine Security. Her scholarly activism also
includes her participation in various working groups including: The
Visuality & Alterity Working Group and the Graduate Asian Pacific
Islander Collective. Research Interest: social movement formations through
the lens of human trafficking; transnational feminism; gender and migration;
visual culture and social movements.