Sheila has been a member of the Urban Water Research Centre* Board of Advisors since 2017, but has supported the collective since 2014, including the Wetskills Canada 2014 international competition. She initiated and co-led the 2016 Green Infrastructure Youth Hackathon while at the City of Toronto (the subject of an upcoming chapter in a book on educating planners, that she is co-writing), and was on the steering committee for the 2018 Implementing Green Infrastructure: Building a Community of Practice. In recognition of her volunteerism, she was presented with a 2019 G. Raymond Chang Outstanding Volunteer Award.

*The Urban Water Research Centre (UWRC) is a a multi-disciplinary collective of over 40 experts across 6 faculties and 13 Departments. Our researchers and their wet labs and students come from from the natural sciences, engineering, policy/regulatory, and social science arenas. (They work) on water capture strategies including green roofs and urban forests, low impact development and municipal master planning, engineered wetlands and sophisticated wastewater mitigation strategies, and cost-benefit economic strategies. (Source: UWRC)