Tayeba Batool is a PhD Student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation project focuses on governance, expertise, practices, and more-than-human lives of urban trees and forests in Pakistan. Tayeba conducts research at the intersection of urban ecology, climate governance, and environmental politics in South Asia, drawing on ethnographic, archival, and collaborative creative methods. Tayeba received a Masters in International Affairs from American University. Her master's thesis investigated the politics of conservation, heritage, and community identity in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. Prior to her time at Penn, she worked on international development projects in Pakistan that facilitated institutional capacity building, economic participation, and private-public sector collaboration.