Lori Beckstead is associate professor in the RTA School of Media and the director of the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University. She teaches courses in sound production, including podcasting, and is co-host and co-producer of The Podcast Studies Podcast. She has two books in the works for publication in 2023, including Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century and an edited vole entitled Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory.