Susan R. Holmberg is a political economist and Senior Editor and Researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Independent Business Initiative. She writes on corporate power and inequality and has been published in the New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The Nation, and Democracy Journal.
Previously, Susan worked as Research Director and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute in New York, Program Director at the Center for Popular Economics in Massachusetts, and Research Analyst at the Center for Rural Studies in Vermont.
Susan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UMass, Amherst.
Reach Susan by email at sholmberg [at] ilsr [dot] org.
ILSR investigates how dollar store chains are using predatory tactics to kill off grocery stores and other local businesses, harming rural and urban communities alike.
Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg argue that the left should embrace small business again; it is crucial to reversing inequality and rescuing democracy.
ILSR submitted a comment letter to the FTC and DOJ that describes private equity firms' tactics and how they hurt small businesses.
The groundbreaking report illustrates that racial disparity is not merely an outcome of monopoly power but a means by which corporations attain it.