The Representation Foundation
Built for Representation.
We educate professionals and citizens about their roles as representatives and the represented. A healthy republic depends on informed people, shared power, and meaningful participation.
Our foundational belief
Representation is fundamental to every republic, and quality representation requires education, communication, and shared power.
Our purpose is to invoke the many forms of representation practiced every day throughout American civic life.
Our mission is to give representatives and the represented the knowledge needed to understand their roles and strengthen the institutions that connect them.
Our work
Representation in practice.
We approach representation as an active civic discipline, not simply something that happens during an election.
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Professional
Helping people recognize the representative responsibilities they carry in their professions, organizations, families, and communities.
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Electoral
Educating citizens about the relationship between elections, institutions, accountability, and meaningful political representation.
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Sovereign
Reinforcing the citizen's role as a participant in self-government and as a source of authority within the American republic.
Weekly livestream
Join the Representation Station.
Take part in weekly conversations about representation, citizenship, civic institutions, and the responsibilities we share as representatives and the represented.
Foundation leadership
Meet the team.
The Representation Foundation brings together experience in law, business, civic engagement, finance, political science, and political thought.
President
Walter D. Clapp
Walter is an attorney, entrepreneur, and inventor. Walter first learned about our lack of Representation and the failed First Amendment while clerking for the U.S. Senate in his last year of law school. He believes, as did George Washington, that freedom of speech must be used to elect good and adequate representation in our House.
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Vice President
Jeff Mayhugh
Jeff Mayhugh is a Christian, husband, and father of five. After building a small business and a family, Jeff decided to dig into history. He discovered the problem of the capped House, and he decided to get involved, volunteering for local campaigns and running for office. He is a contributor in The Hill, Newsweek, and The Blaze.
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Treasurer · Board Member
Roger Scott
Roger Scott has served for more than thirty years in various finance, accounting, and strategy leadership roles for some of the largest, most well-known firms on the planet, including AT&T and FedEx. Roger currently operates as a consulting accountant, serving as fractional CFO or Controller for client companies across the country. He has been married for 35 years and is proud to claim parentage of two adult children.
Board Member
Tyler Syck
Tyler Syck is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pikeville. His research interests include American Political Development, American Political Thought, Political Ideologies, Local Democracy, Social Institutions, and Roman Political History. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia.
Board Member
Ryan Williamson
Ryan Williamson is an Associate Professor at the University of Wyoming's School of Politics, Public Affairs, & International Studies. His areas of expertise include electoral politics, election reform, election administration, legislative procedure, and institutional development. He earned his doctorate from the University of Georgia and previously worked in Washington, D.C. as a congressional fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
University of Wyoming Profile →Your role matters
Put representation into action.
Whether you are a teacher, plumber, doctor, electrician, engineer, attorney, veteran, accountant, parent, student, or concerned citizen, you have a role to play in restoring meaningful representation.
The Representation Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on education. Its sister organization, the No Cap Fund, is a 501(c)(4) organization able to take more direct action concerning the quality of representation in the U.S. House. Donations to the No Cap Fund are not tax-deductible for individuals.