Shelby Lake was the Director of Content and Strategy for Science in the Classroom in the STEM Education Program at AAAS. Shelby studied biology and English literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and went on to earn his MA in Language and Communication from Georgetown University. He began working in education at the Duke University Center for Science Education and continued this interest abroad in Japan as a member of the Saga Prefecture Board of Education before joining the SitC team in 2016. Through his position at SitC, Shelby worked to improve the communication of scientific information to student and public audiences by combating misinformation and increasing the representation of scientists from marginalized groups.