West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy -- Our Mission

Board of Directors

Steve White, President
Director, ACT Foundation

Dennis Sparks, Vice-President
Executive Director, West Virginia Council of Churches

Rick Wilson, Secretary
American Friends Service Committee

Karen Kunz, D.P.A., Treasurer
WVU Department of Public Administration

David Cormier, Ph. D.
WVU Institute for Labor Studies & Research

Kathy McCormick
Executive Vice President and Long Term Care Division Director of Service Employees International Union District 1199

Kelli Hinkle
Program Manager of the West Virginia Alliance for Sustainable Families

Rev. James Patterson
President, Partnership of African American Churches

Margot Saunders
National Consumer Law Center

Research and analyze tax and budget issues for fairness and adequacy and to examine overall budget priorities.
Educate policymakers on the effects of budget and tax policies and economic trends.
Inform public debate and ensure that complex tax and budget issues are accessible to a varied audience of state and local officials, journalists, nonprofits, other interested parties, as well as the general public.
Make research available to state and community-based groups and organizations and work to assure that they are consulted in the process of setting priorities for research and analysis.