Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Mark Tapscott

Mr. Tapscott is editorial page editor of the Washington Examiner and tracks the Internet revolution in media and government. He is a member of the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame and a member of the Media Bloggers Association board of directors. He is also a founding member and host of NewsTrust.net, as well as a visiting journalism fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Bill Beach

Mr. Beach is Heritage's chief "number cruncher." As director of the Heritage's Center for Data Analysis, he oversees original statistical research on taxes, Social Security, crime, education, trade and a host of other issues, ensuring it's both rigorous in its technical scholarship and produced in time to help inform the public debate over the issue. Under Beach's leadership, Heritage has acquired one of the largest privately held public-policy databases in the United States, as well as a variety of peer-reviewed analytical models. Together, these acquisitions allow the Center to produce some of the most sophisticated calculations done anywhere in the world.

Sheila Krumholz

Mrs. Krumholz is executive director of the the Center for Responsive Politics, serving as the organization's chief administrator, the liaison to its board and major funders and its primary spokesperson. She became executive director in December 2006, having served for eight years as CRP's research director, supervising data analysis for OpenSecrets.org and CRP's clients. She first joined the CRP staff in 1989 and was assistant editor of the very first edition of Open Secrets, the Center's flagship publication. She has a degree in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Minnesota.

John Fleming

John Fleming is the senior data graphics editor at The Heritage Foundation and oversees production of the foundation's information graphic content. Mr. Fleming is a former journalism graphic artist, editor, and director who has worked at four newspapers around the U.S., most recently the Detroit Free Press in Detroit, Michigan.