Mike Burke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and School of Public Administration at Ryerson. Burke earned his BA and MA from the University of Windsor and his PhD in Political Science from York University. Before coming to Ryerson in 1994, he worked as a union organizer and held sessional appointments at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and York University. He is active in a number of associations, including the Institute for Social Research, the Canadian Political Science Association, the Society for Socialist Studies and the Ryerson Health Research Network. His research and teaching interests include research methods; political economy of communications; culture and identity; and discourse theory.

Joanne Naiman is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Ryerson University. Naiman earned her Bachelor of Arts (1967), Master of Arts in Sociology (1969), and Bachelor of Education (1970) from the University of Toronto. She was a member of the faculty at Ryerson from 1971 to 2004. During her thirty-three years there she taught a variety of undergraduate courses in urban sociology, women's studies, social change, and gender roles, in addition to introductory sociology. She is the author of a number of academic articles, and has been involved for many years in a variety of activist organizations, including the anti-apartheid movement, as well as efforts to preserve publicly-funded education in Ontario. She is a member of Independent Jewish Voices (Canada), a former Chair of Canadians Concerned about South Africa, and is a co-author of "Relations Between Canada and South Africa," a report prepared for the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in 1984.