Michelle Shephard

Michelle Shephard is a journalist with the Toronto Star and author, who has covered issues of terrorism, national security and civil rights, writing stories from Ground Zero the night of 9/11, from the streets of Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, behind the wire in Guantanamo Bay and even from the Lido Deck while cruising the Atlantic Ocean with two former CIA bosses. She is based in Toronto, where she lives in a century-old downtown home with her photojournalist husband Jim Rankin.