I’m a writer, researcher, and advocate working to dismantle corporate monopolies and build a more decentralized economy.
As co-executive director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, I study the impact of concentrated corporate power, help shape antimonopoly policy, and work with grassroots leaders to strengthen independent businesses and advance community self-determination.
Recent Work
MORE PERFECT UNION · 2026
A Scheme to Keep Grocery Prices High
An investigation into how Walmart and Pepsi rigged the grocery market, drawing on court records ILSR fought to make public.
WASHINGTON MONTHLY · 2026
How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay
Online price swings look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy that steers the entire market upward.
THE ATLANTIC · 2024
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created today’s food deserts.