User Profile for Michael Shuman (mshuman)

Bio: Michael Shuman is the director of Research and Public Policy for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is author of "The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition." In 1982 he founded the Center for Innovative Diplomacy a nonprofit organization that promoted global peace, justice, development, and environmental protection through direct citizen and city participation in international affairs. He then became a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies for two years and Director for six years. Among his accomplishments was starting the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists. From 1998 to the present, Shuman worked as a contractor, sometimes independently and sometimes through the Green Policy Institute and Community Ventures, with economically disadvantaged communities to create sustainable small businesses.

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