Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and Associate Professor in the Division of Ethnic Studies with the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at University of Utah. Prior to joining the faculty of University of Utah, Dr. Fukushima was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University (2013 – 2015) with the Institute for Research on Women and the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She received her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She is the co-lead for the Institute of Impossible Subjects project, "Migratory Times." She is also the Project Lead & Co-Principal Investigator for the Gender-Based Violence Consortium. She is the author of the award-winning book Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US (Stanford University Press, 2019). https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29061 Fukushima's book Migrant Crossings received the American Sociological Association (ASA) Asia and Asian America Section Book Award: Asian America (2020).

Shelly comes to the U after 15 years of managing and marketing fundraising events in Salt Lake City. She grew up in Utah but also lived in Oregon where she worked at Portland State University for seven years coordinating faculty development events. Shelly earned a BS degree in business administration and marketing from Utah State University.