Roy Beck is a well-known figure in the NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation’s Founder, President, and CEO is Roy Beck. In the 1960s, he was one of the nation’s first environmental-beat newspaper reporters, having graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
As a newspaper journalist, he won more than a dozen honors for his environmental, business, and religious reporting during his two decades. In 1991, Roy Beck began working as a full-time policy analyst on immigration and population issues in the United States. He wrote four books about immigration, the environment, the labor market in the United States, ethics, religion, and public policy. He’s co-authored several sprawl studies and has articles in various periodicals, academic journals, and newspapers.
In 1996, he created NumbersUSA to implement the immigration recommendations of two national committees, one chaired by former Rep. Barbara Jordan and the other by former Sen. Tim Wirth. His Atlantic Monthly piece on the issues of too much immigration in a small city was picked by the Encyclopedia Britannica to be included in a chapter of the Annals of America as one of the most important writings of the 1990s. Roy Beck appeared on hundreds of TV shows, radio shows, congressional hearings, university lectures, think tank and conference panels, and speaker’s forums as an immigration expert.
In 1972, Mr. Roy received the United States Army Commendation Medal (non-combat service). The Clothing closets for inner-city kids (Dallas), the Multiple Sclerosis Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.), nursing homes (Columbia, Missouri), United Methodist Sunday school teaching (Ohio, Texas, Virginia), and food/transportation assistance to poor immigrants and others are among his volunteer accomplishments (Arlington, Va.). Roy Beck has been leading an annual week-long tour for youths since 1990, where they build Habitat for Humanity houses and refurbish homes for the elderly impoverished. Visit this page for more information.
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