[3][8][9][10] Her academic research and filmmaking focus on the theme of human resilience to environmental change.
[1][11][12] In 2013, while attending McGill University in Montreal, Canada, she won a grant from National Geographic and she used the funds to travel to Madagascar to study how farmers were adapting to deforestation.
[12] The first episode documented community adaptations to sea level rise in Bangladesh, such as the use of floating farms, schools and hospitals.
[12] As a child, Carrère grew up in a tree house built by her father along the shores of Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, New York.
[3][8] In 2021, she was pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Ecosystem Science & Policy at the Abess Center at the University of Miami.