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ANNIE FUKUSHIMA is a PhD Candidate in Ethnic Studies and a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women & Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. As a scholar activist Fukushima founded an arts and awareness initiative, Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery. Her activism also includes her role as 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 is a Team Lead Responder for human trafficking with the SAGE Project. She serves as the Board of Advisor for Chinese Adoptee Links International. She also works to support an international network in the Asia-Pacific and Carribbean, Women for Genuine Security and is the co-editor of their newsletter, (Re)Collection. She recently co-published, "Gender & US Bases in the Asia-Pacific" with Foreign Policy in Focus and is collaborating with Christine Stark to Co-edit The Art of Resistance: Creative Writings on Prostitution. Her scholarly activism also includes her participation in various academic working groups including: The Visuality & Alterity Working Group and the Graduate Asian Pacific Islander Collective. Her research develops an analysis of transnational feminisms, gender and migration, visual culture and social movements through the lens of human trafficking.