Jim Shultz is the Founder and Executive Director of the Democracy Center, a longtime advocacy advisor to UNICEF, and a contributing writer at The New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books, including: Lessons from Lockport: Dispatches from the Great American Divide, The Democracy Owners' Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World, and Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization.