Abigail Hickman is working as a field organizer with the Joy Hofmeister campaign for Oklahoma governor. As a Mitchell Scholar, shestudied English at the University of Limerick. A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, she is interested in Indigenous Futurisms, a subfield of speculative fiction that focuses on what decolonization might look like. As an undergraduate at Columbia University, she served on the executive board of the Native American Council, where she spearheaded a successful petition for university recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day. She also interned with her tribe's Office of Government Relations. Abigail was enthusiastic about the University of Limerick's unique Ralahine Center for Utopian Studies as no work of Indigenous studies has adopted a Utopian mode of analysis. Ireland and Indigenous nations have a long history. During the Trail of Tears, Ireland sent provisions to the Five Tribes of Oklahoma. Following the Famine, the Five Tribes returned the favor. Abigail notes that this relationship revealed its unyielding strength recently as Irish citizens fundraised thousands of dollars in COVID-19 relief aid for the Navajo and Hopi Nations, and when Ireland's lacrosse team bowed out of the sport's top international tournament to support the inclusion of the Iroquois Nationals. Today, Indigenous people still confront eliminatory systems of power and Abigail wants to imagine what might come next. In the long term, she hopes to work as a professor at a university with a large Indigenous student population. Abby obtained her undergraduate degree at in Anthropology from Columbia University.