David Bollier

David Bollier is Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for New Economics in the U.S. He’s an author, activist, blogger and independent scholar with a primary focus on the commons, as well as co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, an advocacy/consulting project supporting the commons movement. Bollier has written or edited nine books on the commons, including the recent Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons andThe Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking. For years, he collaborated with television producer, writer and activist Norman Lear on a wide variety of non-television public affairs and political projects.  In 2001 Bollier co-founded Public Knowledge, a Washington advocacy organization for the public’s stake in the Internet, telecom and copyright policy.  Bollier blogs at Bollier.org; lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.