Maeve Powell is a Ngiyampaa woman who grew up in Sydney and Canberra with links to western New South Wales. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/Economics from ANU in 2014. In 2017, she completed a Masters of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. In 2016, she undertook the Indigenous Studies Summer Program at Columbia University in New York. She sees her academic work as situated within trans- Indigenous scholarship at the intersection of Indigenous studies and critical geography. She is interested in spatial decolonisation, urban Indigenous belonging, digital story mapping and Indigenous education. Maeve is currently a PhD scholar in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU.