Abby Travis (she/her) manages communications and content for the IAS. Abby brings to the IAS her varied experience in engagement strategy, digital communications, program development and academic administration, fundraising, and over ten years in literary publishing. Before coming to the IAS, she served as editor at Milkweed Editions, an independent press based here in Minneapolis. She has also worked for Ploughshares and Rain Taxi Review of Books. She taught writing and literature at Gustavus Adolphus College and Emerson College and worked in the Office of the Dean of the School of the Arts at Emerson. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Emerson College and is at work on a book about the sport and art of training horses for competition and the weight of human spectacle, ambition, and intention riding on the equine body. Her writing has been recognized as Notable by Best American Essays. In collaboration with the TRUTH Project’s core research team and Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, she led publicity for the 2023 publication of the groundbreaking “Oshkigin Noojimo'iwe, Naġi Waƞ P̣etu Uƞ Ihduwaṡ'ake He Oyate Kiƞ Zaniwic̣aye Kte” (the TRUTH Report). When not at the IAS, you can find her meditating or under the tutelage of horses and trees.