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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Elinor Ostrom trained as a political scientist at UCLA and spent 47 years at Indiana University Bloomington, where in the 1960s she built the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis—a research center run like its name, collaborative and non-hierarchical, drawing scientists across disciplines. She spent decades studying how groups—communities, cooperatives, unions—interact with ecosystems and finite resources. What she found cut against the prevailing gospel: people could govern the commons rationally, averting depletion, without state control or private markets. In 2009 she shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her analysis of economic governance, the first woman to win it. She died in 2012, three years after the prize, her framework alive in resource policy worldwide.