Beth Shepherd is a white settler living and learning in Ottawa on traditional Anishinaabe territory where she is a visual artist, environmentalist, and animal advocate. After a career in business and technology, she reinvented herself as an artist, taking studio art courses and studying art history at Carleton University, which culminated in a master’s degree in 2020. Also holding degrees in psychology and biology, she undertakes interdisciplinary art-research projects that are provocations to industrialized and consumerist systems. These projects address industrialized animal agriculture, the urban water system, environmental degradation and diversity loss, climate change, and currently, regenerative agriculture.