Elizabeth (Betsy) Olson is a professor of geography and global studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has held previous faculty appointments at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Lancaster University, England. Her writing and teaching focuses on ethics and practices of care and inequality across diverse contexts, themes, and geographic regions. Her research has been funded by NSF, ESRC/EHRC (UK), PCORI, and the European Union. She has published widely in geography and interdisciplinary journals, and she has co-edited and co-authored five books on gender, religion, and development inequality. She leads an interdisciplinary network of researchers in the U.S. advancing evidence and interventions in support of young people who are caregivers.