David Bollier is an American activist and scholar who studies the commons as a new/old paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He directs the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (USA), blogs at Bollier.org, and has written ten books on the commons, including The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking and Free, Fair and Alive. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.