In 1999, as a junior in college, Dr. Bouché read The Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, and it changed her life. In 2003, she spent a summer interning at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala where she witnessed minor sex trafficking first hand during a midnight “tour” of the worst zones of Guatemala City with Casa Alianza. In 2007, during her Ph.D. program, after having read almost every book published on human trafficking to date and recognizing the need for sound empirical research on the issue, she decided to use her newly-gained empirical skills to study human trafficking with analytical rigor to offer data-driven solutions. And that is basically what she has been doing for the last decade.