Dr. Leah A. Dundon is the Director of the Vanderbilt Climate Change Initiative at Vanderbilt University. She is also a practicing environmental attorney with the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., and holds a research appointment in environmental engineering at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Leah completed her Ph.D. through the Center for Environmental Management Studies at Vanderbilt University and is part of a research group that focuses on climate change, risk management, and assessing the impacts of extreme weather on infrastructure adaptation. In this episode we discuss her background and her innovative course that concludes with a group of students attending the Council of Parties annual international meeting on climate change.