Tanya is a Program Officer under the Sanitation Capacity Building Platform at NIUA. She is an Architect and Urban Regeneration professional and graduated with honors from the Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She received the merit excellence scholarship for securing the first position throughout her master's. She has 2 years of experience as a landscape architect and has interned as a researcher with SMART City Chandigarh and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA). She has also worked on the city-level planning for Leh, Ladakh from a water and ecological perspective and in Shillong from a sociocultural lens. Her interests lie in water rejuvenation and conservation, building climate resilience and working towards enhancing the quality of life in urban areas whilst strengthening communities and marginalised groups