Rob Wipond is an investigative journalist who writes frequently on the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for 17 magazine and journalism awards for writing in medicine, science and technology, business, and law. He has taught journalism and creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria and Royal Roads University, and also works and volunteers with nonprofit groups that do neighborhood community building. And he's almost certainly the only person who has ever published writing in both the British Medical Journal and Mad Magazine—which likely says more about him than anything else.