Professor Shelby Riskin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology where she teaches a broad range of courses ranging from ecosystem ecology to conservation biology to plants and society. Professor Riskin is largely interested in the impact of global change on organisms and ecosystems as well as how we teach and talk about issues of environmental challenge and the risk of environmental catastrophe. She brings a commitment to fostering thoughtful conversation and authentic learning experiences in her courses including facilitating field trips, flipped classroom approaches, and immersing students in research. She has mentored over 30 undergraduate research projects focused on both pedagogical and ecological questions. Outside of the classroom Professor Riskin is an author of Biology: Exploring the Diversity of Life, one of Canada’s leading first year biology textbooks. She is also passionate about outreach and community engaged learning, helping to develop a school program for students in grades 4 to 6 on waste literacy and the ecological consequences of plastic pollution that is taught by U of T students throughout Toronto.