Abby Travis (she/her) manages IAS communications and content, advancing the IAS’s interdisciplinary mission through a range of strategic campaigns, events, initiatives, and digital technologies. Before coming to the IAS, she served as editor at Milkweed Editions, a nonprofit, independent press based here in Minnesota. Abby brings to the IAS her varied experience in engagement strategy, digital communications, fundraising, and over ten years in literary publishing to nurture an active and engaged ecosystem of writers, readers, educators, researchers, community members, and supporters. 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. When not at the IAS, you can find her meditating or under the tutelage of horses and trees.