Bruce Shoemaker is a researcher on natural resource conflict issues, focusing on the Mekong region as well as far-northern California. He is the lead editor of the 2018 book Dead in the Water (University of Wisconsin Press) on the World Bank and hydropower and a board member of Inclusive Development International and the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture. Bruce is a member of Water for Citizens of Weed CA and was one of the nine community members sued in a SLAPP suit over efforts to secure their town's water.