Leadership and Staff

Wendy P. Warcholik, Ph.D., Executive Director

As an economist, Dr. Wendy Warcholik has spent her career researching and writing about important public policy issues like limited government and entrepreneurship. Her professional experience includes positions as Economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, Chief Forecasting Economist for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance Services, Adjunct Scholar with The Tax Foundation and Research Fellow at The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.  Most recently, she worked as a consultant to free-market think tanks across the country.

Wendy received her Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University.  While pursuing her Ph.D., she was a Bradley Research Fellow with Nobel Laureate James Buchanan’s Center for the Study of Public Choice.  Additionally, Wendy has taught numerous economics courses to MBA students.

J. Scott Moody, Vice President of Policy

J. Scott Moody has worked as a Tax Policy Economist for over 13 years.  He is the author, co-author and editor of 154 studies and books.  He has testified twice before the House Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Congress as well as various state legislatures.  He has been interviewed by countless newspapers and radio and television stations.  His work has appeared in Forbes, CNN Money, State Tax Notes, Portland Press Herald, New Hampshire’s Union Leader, Hartford Courant, The Oklahoman and Albuquerque Journal.

His professional experience includes positions as Senior Economist at The Tax Foundation, Senior Economist at The Heritage Foundation, Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist at The Maine Heritage Policy Center, Research Fellow at The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and Senior Fellow for Budget and Tax Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute.

Additionally, Scott was appointed to Maine’s Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission by Governor Paul LePage in January 2011.

Scott received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wingate University (Wingate, N.C.).  He received his Master of Arts in Economics from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA).

• Developed the Tax Foundation’s first Federal Individual Income Tax Micro-Simulation Model.
• Developed framework for state-level Individual Income Tax Micro-Simulation Models.
• Co-developer of the Tax Foundation’s “State Business Tax Climate Index.”
• Operationalized the Tax Foundation’s statistically matched database between IRS and CPS data—results published in the “Putting a Face on America’s Tax Returns” report series.
• Author of the Tax Foundation’s “Tax Freedom Day” for five years.
• Editor of the Tax Foundation’s “Facts and Figures on Government Finance” for four years.

Ann Marie Banfield, Education Liaison

Ann Marie Banfield began working as Cornerstone’s Education Liaison in 2009. As an education activist, she took her decade long research on education to Concord. Working with experts in education from across the country, she offers valuable insight into problems and successes in education. She holds a B.A. in Business Management from Franklin University in Columbus Ohio. Ann Marie and her husband have three children and reside in Bedford, NH.

Katlyn Manha, Executive Assistant and Director of Projects