Nithya Joseph received her Ph.D. in the socioeconomics of development from the EHESS, Paris. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut Français Pondicherry, working full-time on a UK GCRF project “Depleted by Debt? Focusing a Gendered Lens on Climate, Credit, and Nutrition in Trans-local Cambodia and South India.” As a Fung Global Fellows Program early career research scholar, she will use the material gathered as part of the project to reflect on ways of locating the role of debt in a sustainable and equitable future.