Annie Isabel Fukushima
Annie Isabel Fukushima is an assistant professor in the Division of Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation. Fukushima also is the project lead on the University of Utah’s Gender-based Violence Consortium. She is the co-lead for the Institute of Impossible Subjects project “Migratory Times” and author of the award-winning book “Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.” (Stanford University Press, 2019). Prior to coming to the University of Utah, Fukushima was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University (2013–15) with the Institute for Research on Women and the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in ethnic studies with a designated emphasis in women, gender and sexuality studies.
Jason Burrow-Sánchez
Jason Burrow-Sánchez is a professor of counseling psychology and the chair of the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education. He is also the director of the Mountain Plains Region 8 Prevention Technology Transfer Center, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at the University of Utah. His research interests include the prevention and treatment of substance use for adolescents in school and community settings with a particular interest in Latinx adolescents. His research has been funded at the local, state and national levels and he has published numerous articles, chapters and books. Burrow-Sánchez is a licensed psychologist in the state of Utah. He received his doctorate from the University of Oregon in 2003.
Maile Arvin
Maile Arvin is an assistant professor in the Division of Gender Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation and the Department of History in the College of Humanities. She is the recipient of an ACLS Incentive Fellowship (2019) and participated in the Foundation Fellows Program (2018). Arvin is the author of “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania” (Duke University Press, 2019). Arvin was an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside (2015-17) and a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-15). She earned her doctorate in ethnic studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2013.
Kelly S. Bricker
Kelly S. Bricker is a professor and chair in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism in the College of Health. She has research and teaching interests in nature-based tourism, sense of place, gateway communities, natural resource management, health benefits of nature-based experiences, and the impacts of tourism. Bricker is the co-author or editor of seven books on sustainable tourism, ecotourism and the restorative qualities of nature. She has contributed numerous chapters to books on tourism’s environmental and social impacts and authored more than 60 journal articles. Bricker serves on the boards of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, the Tourism and Protected Area Specialist Group of the IUCN, and the Central Wasatch Stakeholders Council. With her husband, partners in Outdoor Adventure River Specialists, and 12 communities in the rural highlands of Fiji, Bricker established a lease for conservation on the Upper Navua River through an ecotourism project they created called Rivers Fiji. She completed her doctorate at Pennsylvania State University, where she specialized in sustainable tourism and protected area management.