Mai Ishikawa Sutton is a freelance writer, community organizer, and consultant. She is a community organizer with the People's Open Network in Oakland, California and the Digital Commons Fellow with the Commons Network. Her writing focuses on intersections of human rights, solidarity economics, and digital commons. Formerly, she was the Community Engagement Manager at Shareable. Before that she was with the Electronic Frontier Foundation advocating for the public interest in international intellectual property policy.