Bryan Bruns is an Independent Consultant Sociologist. Bruns was exposed to the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom through mutual colleagues, conferences, and their writing. In 2009 Bruns became a Visiting Scholar at the Ostrom Workshop. He discusses what it was like to be a part of the Ostrom Workshop and the way Elinor Ostrom taught. Later he discusses his own work, Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop, and the Nobel Prize.