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ANNIE FUKUSHIMA is a doctoral candidate in Ethnic Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also working on
receiving a certified Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender &
Sexuality. In 2004, Fukushima graduated from the University of
Hawaii with High Honors in American Studies and English,
where she researched and linked the Bar Girl stereotype of
Koreans in Hawaii to historic colonization and exploitation of
Korean women, the Chongshindae ("Comfort Woman"), and
U.S. militarization. The same year, she studied the trafficking of
Albanians into the UK at Thames Valley University and
researched at the Child & Woman Abuse Study Unit under the
permission of Liz Kelly. 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.
Independently, she is currently organizing an art-in-action
initiative. Her scholarly activism also includes her participation
in various working groups including: The Visuality & Alterity
Working Group and the Graduate Asian Pacific Islander
Collective. Fukushima's current research develops a transnational
lens of social movements through the analysis of human
trafficking networks, U.S. responses both in enforcement, social
services, policy, and media representations of racialized,
gendered, sexed bodies. Fukushima is a Korean-Mexican adoptee.
ANNIE FUKUSHIMA
A Founding CAL Board Member
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