“Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.” by Annie Isabel Fukushima, an assistant professor in the Division of Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation and an Affiliated Faculty Member, Asian Studies, recently received a 2020 book award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America. An online launch party for the book will feature a panel discussion with Fukushima, Carolyn Kim, Hediana Utarti and Cindy Liou on July 26 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Kim is the managing attorney at Justice At Last, a non-profit law firm that specializes in legal advocacy for survivors of all forms of human trafficking located in the Greater Bay Area of Northern California. Utarti is the anti-trafficking program coordinator/community advocate for the San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter. Liou is the state policy director at Kids in Need of Defense, a national non-profit working to provide legal counsel to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the U.S. To learn more and to register for this event, click here.

To read her story that was featured in @TheU, click here.