She is the founder of Bluedot Living, a media company with print and digital magazines publishing stories about solution-based approaches to climate change and sustainability.
John O'Connor, television reviewer for The New York Times said, "What takes place here is that rare occurrence in films of any sort – a female bonding … Ms. Moore and Ms. Peters give marvelously restrained and touching performances.
Her producing credits include: A Town Torn Apart (1992), starring Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry, about an innovative high school principal; World War II: When Lions Roared (1994), about the relationship between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, starring John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine; My Antonia (1995), from Willa Cather's classic novel, which Riskin both wrote and produced, with Jason Robards and Eva Marie Saint; The Member of the Wedding (1997) based on Carson McCullers' novel, with Anna Paquin and Alfre Woodard.
[6] Bluedot Living's digital newsletters and websites have since expanded to seven other locations: Brooklyn, Toronto, Boston, Nantucket, San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, with a self-reported circulation of more than 250,000.
[8] Riskin has been dedicated to non-profit work and activism on behalf of human rights, education, her union (Writers Guild of America, West), and public radio.
For eight years, she chaired the Hellman-Hammett Prize Committee, established by the estate of Lillian Hellman and administered by HRW, a fund for writers around the world who were victims of political persecution.