Mike Larsen is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at York University, and a Researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies. He has a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Ottawa. Since 2008, he has served as the Co-managing Editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: a prisoner-written, academically oriented non-profit journal that brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments for the purpose of enlightening public discourse about carceral institutions. Mike’s research deals with Canadian national security practices, particularly as they involve the deprivation of liberty and contestations around government secrecy, public accountability and the right to know. His current work focuses on the Canadian security certificate regime, with an emphasis on practices of detention and surveillance, and makes extensive use of access to information requests. Mike has published in the academic and popular press, including in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the edited volume Surveillance: Power, Problems, and Politics, and Embassy Foreign Policy Newsweekly.

Sherry Wasilow is a doctoral candidate in communication at Carleton University and a science writer for Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.  She has a Master of Arts in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin, a Graduate Diploma in journalism from Concordia University (Montreal), and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Calgary.  Her current and future research interests include past and present conflict journalism – with a particular focus on the media’s role in the war in Afghanistan – as well as technology’s impact on the nature of journalism, religion and politics, women and children’s rights, and national-security versus right-to-know issues.  Sherry’s work has appeared in academic, policy, and journalistic venues, including the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, the Betty Ford Newsletter, Texas Department of Health policy briefs, The Austin Chronicle, and the Ottawa Citizen.