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Mary Timmel is Small Business and Consumer Organizer for ILSR’s Independent Business initiative, where she supports and develops the leadership of small businesses and consumers to win policy changes that check Amazon’s outsized power and address rising corporate concentration across the economy. Since joining ILSR, Mary has coordinated Small Business Rising — a coalition of over … Read More

Ron Knox is a Senior Researcher and Writer for ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative. A combined storyteller and antitrust expert, Ron is building our deep bench of reporting and research on the ways extreme corporate concentration has come to dominate and damage industries throughout the economy. Ron’s writing in The Washington Post deftly explained Congress’s momentum toward … Read More

Dr. Susan Holmberg is a political economist and the Associate Director for Research on the Independent Business team at ILSR. She writes on corporate power, small business, inequality, systemic racism, and climate change. For the Financial Times, Susan reported on how Big Tech is killing innovation, which Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf said was one of … Read More

Katy Milani is the associate director for policy and advocacy for ILSR’s independent business program where she works closely with coalition partners and policymakers on antimonopoly and small business policy and advocacy. Previously she was the director of advocacy and policy at the Roosevelt Institute where she led strategic engagement with allies, partner organizations, and elected … Read More