Mahnoor spent her childhood living in Houston and grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in Pre-Law and Psychology with minors in Environmental Studies and Film. After graduating in 2020, she spent a year working on Nisani Farm in Southern Virginia, learning and applying regenerative agriculture techniques. In pursuit of gaining more knowledge and global perspectives, she went to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to get a Masters of Science in Environment and Resource Management and conducted her final research project on the socio-environmental impacts of large dams on the Indus river basin in Pakistan. Mahnoor is now an AmeriCorps member of the Texas Conservation Corps in Austin and is excited to see how her work as a watershed research fellow will intersect with her experiences in the field.