Taimur Ahmad is a PhD student in community and environmental sociology. His research focuses on how diverse communities find common ground around nature.
This research is centered on the small town of Bishop, California, where Indigenous peoples, cowboys, and climbers all share strong, sometimes diverging, sometimes overlapping connections to the same mountain landscape.
Originally from New York City, before coming to UW–Madison Ahmad worked as an environmental policy analyst in Washington, D.C., explored the Sierra Nevada as a sponsored rock climber and search and rescue team leader, and built an equity and inclusion program for a small environmental nonprofit.