Sasha Tycko is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at Emory University. Her PhD research focuses on the Atlanta forest where protestors gathered and lived for two years in defiance of the city's proposal to construct a major police training complex (known nationally as "Cop City"). Over two years of fieldwork, Tycko used a range of media to explore how the abandoned forest landscape — the former site of the city prison farm and a slave plantation — motivates new articulations of history, nature, and ethics.

Through this work, Tycko has produced two observational films, Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest and Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work (with Marion Lary), and a photography exhibition, Ways of the Atlanta Forest, currently on view in the Anthropology building at Emory University. Her writing and photographs from the forest have been published in popular and academic presses including n+1, Jewish Currents, Mergoat Magazine, and Trans Studies Quarterly. Her films have screened at a variety of venues around the country and abroad, from university cinemas to community bookstores and DIY spaces.

Tycko's PhD research is supervised by Dr. Anna Grimshaw. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago.