Rachelle Louden is a PhD student in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Her areas of research includes disinformation, information warfare, hybrid warfare, cybercrime, cyberterrorism, influence operations, technology-facilitated political violence, and policing. She works with the Crime Prevention Unit at the City of Burnaby where she helps to facilitate evidence-led approaches to encourage better responses to criminal concerns within the community. Rachelle is also an instructor at the Justice Institute of British Columbia in the Law Enforcement Studies program and has taught graduate-level courses in the Intelligence Analysis program.