Our Team

Benjamin D. Singer CEO | St. Louis

Benjamin D. Singer, the CEO of Show Me Integrity, has worked with Republican, Democratic, and independent reformers since 2012 on local, state, and federal advocacy campaigns to create a more effective, ethical government of, by, and for the people. He has worked on ethics, campaign finance, redistricting, and electoral reforms with leaders across the political spectrum including Sen. John Danforth, Sen. Rob Schaaf, and Tishaura Jones. His work has been featured in TV, radio, and newspaper outlets across the nation.

In 2021 Show Me Integrity won the American Civic Collaboration Award, which celebrates partnerships that strengthen America, for the organization’s work on a project that brought together an unlikely duo: Republican former Governor Matt Blunt and Democratic former Secretary of State Jason Kander, two military veterans who fought to defend democracy and then came home to administer it as secretaries of state.  

In 2016 Benjamin was the National Campaign Director for a bipartisan PAC to elect reformers, co-founded by Republican strategist Mark McKinnon and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig.  Benjamin came back home to Missouri in 2018 to serve as the Communications Director for Clean Missouri, which won a statewide ballot initiative with 62% of the vote and majorities in all 34 state senate districts.  In 2020 he helped lead the St. Louis Approves campaign, which won with 68% to make St. Louis City elections nonpartisan, forcing candidates to win a true majority of the vote—not just one neighborhood, political party, or skin color. 

In 2022, Show Me Integrity passed another ballot measure, Proposition R for Reform, to decrease conflicts of interest in St. Louis City government. It was the first citizen initiative to modernize the City Charter in over 80 years.

To save St. Louisans the question, Benjamin is a graduate of Parkway Central, and attended Northwestern University as a National Merit Scholar. When not reforming government, Benjamin serves on the board of his congregation and enjoys performing, including in six shows at the Muny. He is also an award-winning filmmaker. If you are wondering how he accomplished all of this by the age of twelve, his looks can be deceiving, because he is actually 35.

Andrew Brain Finance Committee | Kansas City

Andrew graduated Tulane University with a Bachelor’s in Science Management, majoring in finance and legal studies. In addition to starting Brain Group, Andrew is a general partner at Marvel Properties, a Kansas City based private multifamily real estate fund. Marvel Properties has been a pioneer of higher end multifamily product in the Kansas City area, dedicated to giving our tenants the best experience possible. As a result, we opened Kansas City’s first smart apartment building last summer in partnership with Homebase.

Andrew boasts an extensive network of friends, colleagues, and  partners who all share his passion to revitalize and build upon Kansas City's historic legacy. This work has earned Andrew "Top Connector 2017" as recognition for his efforts in creating relationships amongst Kansas City business leaders.

LaShana Lewis Board Chair, Show Me Integrity Education Fund | St. Louis

LaShana Lewis is a technologist working in the diversity space with over 20 years of experience. She is currently CEO of L. M. Lewis Consulting, a company which aims to make employers more diverse through recruitment, hiring, and retention best practices. She recently served as Director of the St. Louis Equity in Entrepreneurship Collective, an organization focused on building systems of race and gender equity for St. Louis' early-stage, entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Prior to founding her company, Lewis was an apprentice with LaunchCode, which led to full-time employment at Mastercard where she held positions leading worldwide infrastructure migrations and disaster recovery efforts in the Windows server engineer team, and performed computer program authorization checks for leading financial institutions across the globe as a software engineer.

Lewis lends her I.T. knowledge as a technical consultant and is currently serving as Director of I.T. for Givable, a microdonation platform. She also serves as a role model for diversity in technology, and has met with President Barack Obama's administration as part of the nationwide TechHire Initiative, which encourages employers to hire and train people with non-traditional tech backgrounds.

Benny Fong, ED.D. Secretary | Bolivar

Benny grew up in Oakland, California after his family emigrated from Hong Kong at an early age. He graduated from California State University, Eastbay, and began his career as a math teacher. Benny also served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve to utilize the Montgomery GI Bill to fund his undergraduate studies.

He worked in an international school in China for many years before returning to the U.S. in 2017. During his time overseas, he traveled to many Southeast Asian countries with his wife. After earning his doctorate in Educational Leadership, he now works as an Assistant Professor at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. His expertise lies in educational research and supporting Missouri principals and superintendents with their dissertation journey.

Deb Burgess Board Chair | Springfield

Deb is a former educator and retired obstetrics nurse based in the Springfield, Missouri, area. A business owner with a love of travel and helping others, Deb wants to find ways to use her power for good.

Her favorite quote is from Hillel the Elder: “If not me, who? If not now, when?”

Wally Siewert, PhD Governance Member | St. Louis

Dr. Wally Siewert has over a decade of experience with civic and political engagement, from the grassroots and applied level to academic analysis and theory. From 2011-2017, Dr. Siewert was the Director of the Center for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL) at the University of Missouri St. Louis. During that time CEPL established itself as a statewide hub for public ethics information, conferences, workshops, research, best practices, legislative tracking, community collaboration and more. 

Prior to arriving in St. Louis in 2011, Wally earned his Ph.D. in political philosophy and ethics from the University of California Santa Barbara. He also holds an M.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in philosophy and German from Western Michigan University. Prior to his post-graduate work, Dr. Siewert worked as a political organizer and lobbyist for a network of state-level grassroots consumer justice organizations, including two years as the Campaign Director for the Coalition for Consumer Justice of Rhode Island. He also spent four years as a small business owner and manager.