Christopher Mitchell

Christopher Mitchell is the director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The New Rules Project seeks to change the rules that undermine the strength of local economies and the long-term vitality of communities. Mitchell has worked as a server administrator, Web geek, and in automated quality assurance for software. He earned a master's degree in public policy from the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a bachelor's degree in political science from Macalester College. His research on the advantages to public ownership of broadband systems has been published in Broadband Properties and the NATOA Journal. You can find his reports online at http://www.newrules.org/info.