Roy Beck, the organization’s current President, founded the NumbersUSA Foundation. After completing studies at the Missouri School of Journalism, he was one of the earliest American newspaper journalists to cover environmental issues in the 1960s. Over the course of his time as a journalist, he won more than two dozen prizes for his coverage of issues, including the environment, the economy, and religion.

Roy Beck has worked for the United States government as a policy researcher on immigration and demographic problems since 1991. He has published books, covering a wide range of subjects from ethics and religion to the environment and the American employment market. His writing has been published in a variety of mainstream outlets, from scholarly journals to mainstream newspapers and periodicals. He has collaborated in various sprawl research projects. Since its inception in 1996, NumbersUSA has worked to implement the immigration policies recommended by two national commissions.

The Atlantic Monthly essay he authored about the difficulties of living with a significant immigrant population in a tiny place was chosen by the Encyclopedia Britannica to be featured in a chapter of the Records of America as among the most influential works of the 1990s. As a consultant in the field of immigration, Roy Beck has been a guest on a wide variety of television and radio shows, testified before Congress, spoken at universities, worked as a panelist at conferences and made other public appearances as an expert in their field.

The United States Army awarded Mr. Beck the Army Merit Medal for Non-Combat Service in 1972. United Methodist Sunday school teachers, volunteers with the Several Sclerosis Community Michigan; nurses in Columbia, Missouri; clothes closets for youngsters in Dallas’s inner cities.

All of these and more may be seen on his volunteer service resume. Roy Beck has been leading a group of teenagers on a weeklong service trip every year since 1990. They’ve been helping the elderly in need and constructing Habitat for Humanity homes.

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