Michelle Lee Brown is a doctoral student in the subfields of Indigenous Politics and Futures Studies within the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her areas of focus are Indigenous video games and oceanic realtions. Euskaldun, her ancestral land and waters are Lapurdi, the Bidart/Plage DʻErretegia area. Currently in Hawaiʻi nei, she strives to uphold her relational commitments to ʻohana hanai and the ʻāina that supports them.