Michael Shuman

guest speaker at the

Sustainable Lansing Community Forum

Michael Shuman, a Stanford-trained attorney, is director of the Institute for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship for the Village Foundation, and a fellow (and former director) of the Institute for Policy Studies. His specialties include community economics, federalism, and municipal foreign policy. He has written, co-written, or edited six books, including most recently, Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (Free Press, 1998). He has written over a hundred articles for periodicals like The Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Policy, Parade, New York Times, The Nation, Chronicle on Philanthropy, and Foundation News.

Shuman also has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, such as the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour and NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and is a periodic commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He has given an average of a talk a week for sixteen years, including invited lectures or consultancies in five countries and at a dozen universities.


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