Cara is a third-year doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centers on climate impacts and adaptation in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on leveraging human rights and related legal frameworks to advance climate and health solutions. She is a researcher with Dr. Laura H. Kwong’s Global Environmental Health Equity Lab; a researcher at Climate Rights International; and a fellow at the Berkeley School of Law Human Rights Center. Prior to Berkeley, Cara spent five years working in the environment division at Human Rights Watch.