Cara Schulte

Cara currently serves as rapporteur for the Caribbean Court of Justice within the Sabin Center for Climate Law’s Global Peer Review Network on Climate Litigation. She is also a fourth-year doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research examines climate impacts and adaptation in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on leveraging human rights and related legal frameworks to address challenges at the intersection of climate change and public health.

At Berkeley, Cara is a researcher in Dr. Laura H. Kwong’s Global Environmental Health Equity Lab, a fellow at the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability, and a graduate student instructor for a course on Global Health Ethics. She has also held fellowships with the Center for South Asian Studies and the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law.

In addition to her academic work, Cara is a researcher with Climate Rights International, where she focuses on extreme heat and labor rights in Bangladesh; a research assistant to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Climate Change, leading a series of policy briefs on climate education; and a consultant with Human Rights Watch, where she is supporting projects on climate change and maternal health in Pakistan and Sierra Leone.

Before beginning her doctoral studies, Cara spent about five years in the Environment Division at Human Rights Watch.