Betty Barkha is currently a PhD Candidate at Monash University and her PhD research is focused on examining the gendered impacts of climate change induced mobilities in the Pacific, specifically looking at the political economy of planned relocation and displacement in Fiji. Betty has been involved with various development organisations in Asia and the Pacific region since 2009. She is currently on the board of directors for International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), the CIVICUS alliance and the Association of Women in Development (AWID). Betty is also an advisor to FRIDA Young Feminist Fund and the Global Resilience Fund for Women and Girls (in response to COVID-19). Betty was the Monash GPS Visiting Youth Fellow in Women’s Rights in Asia and the Pacific in 2017 and holds a Master of Arts in Sociology and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Psychology.