Mission & Staff

Ben Wilcox began his career in journalism and served for over twenty years as the news director for the Florida Public Radio Network and the public radio station WFSU-FM in Tallahassee. He produced Capital Report, a nightly news program covering the days events in the Florida legislature.

In 1999, he was named the executive director of Common Cause Florida. He was responsible for representing the position of Common Cause before the Florida legislature on a variety of issues including ethics reform, campaign finance, open government and redistricting reform.

In March 2012, Ben Wilcox became the research director for Integrity Florida, a nonpartisan research institute and government watchdog whose mission is to promote integrity in government and expose public corruption. He oversees the research arm of the institute and is responsible for researching and writing reports on issues involving government ethics, money in politics, government accountability and transparency.

In 2014, Ben Wilcox helped form a coalition of groups called “Citizens for Ethics Reform” that successfully placed a charter amendment on the ballot that created an independent ethics board for the City of Tallahassee. He continues to work with the Ethics Board and the Tallahassee City Commission to develop ethics policy for the city.