Cynthia Caron is Associate Professor of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University, USA.  Her research focuses on gender and agricultural labor, the gendered nature of land and natural resource access, and land tenure in the context of resettlement planning.  In addition to teaching classes on gender and the environment,  property rights, and climate change,  she regularly undertakes short-term consultancies.  In 2021, she worked with IOM on women's land rights programming in South Sudan.