Thomas Linzey, a Pennsylvania-based activist and attorney, is co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit providing free and affordable legal services to grassroots groups and municipal governments and seeking creative legal strategies for democratic control over corporations (especially in agriculture).

Linzey has run as an independent for state Attorney General, serves as coordinator of the Franklin County Coalition, is a resident lecturer for the "Democracy Schools" - weekend seminars held across the U.S. that seek to provoke critical thinking about the role of corporations, and is a frequent lecturer to groups and municipal governments across the country.