Ben Price, guest of Voice of the Voters on February 7, 2007, is a cum laude graduate of West Chester State University, Pennsylvania. He has been an activist for Campaign Finance Reform, Electoral Reform, and Fair Trade issues, and past president of the Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network. He served as contributing editor for the monthly newsletter “Groundswell” (1995–1999) and in 1997 began writing about the distorting effects of corporations on democracy. As an activist for Campaign Finance Reform legislation, he was involved with the Alliance for Democracy’s “Democracy Brigades” and participated in non-violent civil disobedience actions at the nation’s Capitol. In 2002 he ran an independent campaign for U.S. Congress in the 19^th Pennsylvania House district. After attending the Legal Defense Fund’s Democracy School in 2003, Ben attended “Guiding the Conductors” classes to prepare to teach the history, law and lore of corporations. He is now a certified lecturer for the Democracy Schools.

Ben accepted the position of Project Director in the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's Corporations and Democracy Program in 2005. As Project Director, Ben organizes and educates community groups to challenge corporate usurpations of people's rights and governing authority. He also recruits local governments to join the Quality of Life and Local Control Caucus of Township Supervisors – an association of rural Township governments in Pennsylvania working to protect local governance and community authority over quality of life issues.