Zarin Yesmin Chaity is a PhD candidate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Development Studies at Begum Rokeya University, Bangladesh. With over a decade of research and teaching experience, her work focuses on gender and climate change, particularly in climate-vulnerable char (river island) areas. Zarin holds a Master’s degree in Climate Change from the ANU (2019-2020). Her Master’s thesis, Seeing the River Through Women's Eyes, (Supervisor - Associate Professor Dr. Keith Barney) was awarded Best Research Paper by the ANU Gender Institute in 2020.