Her approach combines rigorous methods with deep attention to lived experience: publications on gender and nutrition, partnerships with funders and multilaterals, and direct work with community networks.
Terra.do's LFA Fellowship gave Varna a systems-level view of climate solutions that connected her development economics background to the climate sector.
Varna is working at the junction of justice and climate policy: the space where structural equity and climate resilience have to be designed together, not traded off against each other.
