Nethmi Bathige is a PhD candidate in Geography at Pennsylvania State University and a feminist political ecologist whose research examines the financial ecologies of agrarian debt. Her current work focuses on the embodied health impacts of farmer credit and debt in Sri Lanka’s dry zone using qualitative methods.

She holds an MA in Geography from the University of Kentucky, where her research examined climate-smart agriculture, vulnerability, and gendered labor among smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka. She received her BA in Biology and Geography from Macalester College, where her honors thesis explored food security and dietary diversity among tea smallholders in Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone.