Stacy Mitchell is Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, where she focuses on curbing corporate concentration and building thriving local economies. She has played a leading role in the growing anti-monopoly movement, helping to popularize its ideas and secure their embrace by federal and state policymakers. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. She is the author of Big-Box Swindle and several influential reports on Amazon’s monopolization strategies. Her research on the importance of small, independent business to the health of markets and communities has shaped the thinking of a wide range of policymakers, scholars, and advocates.