Abby studied Law at the University of Galway. She now lives in is Juneau, Alaska, where she has joined the Alaska Municipal League as a Local Government Fellow. Prior to her Mitchell year, she graduated from Brown University with degrees in Public Policy and American Studies. She served as Co-Director of Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE), a student-run housing justice organization that works to provide for the immediate needs of the unhoused community in Rhode Island, while fighting to dismantle the structural causes of housing insecurity and homelessness. A central effort she spearheaded over was a state-wide public outreach effort, in partnership with the Rhode Island Center for Justice, to inform tenants of their rights under the CDC eviction moratorium. With a summer internship at the National Low Income Housing Coalition in Washington, Abby built and maintained a public index of state-level emergency eviction protections issued due to COVID-19. Abby is a nationally certified EMT and worked a weekly, 12-hour shift at Brown. During the pandemic, that care extended to students quarantined across the 3 dormitories Brown maintained for isolation housing. Motivated by public health mitigation efforts, Abby noted that the United States and Ireland instituted nationwide moratoria on most residential evictions.