Commission Members

• Chair – Dolores (Dee Dee) Simon, Innsbrook, Missouri. Appointed 2019.
• Ms. Lolle Boettcher, Owensville, Missouri. Appointed 2006.
• Mr. Sam Devinki. Kansas City, Missouri. Appointed 2018.
• Ms. Devorah Goldenberg, Chesterfield, Missouri. Appointed 2006
• Ms. Cammy Goucher, Joplin, Missouri. Designee, Commissioner of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
• Ms. Dana Humphrey, Troy, Missouri. Appointed 2006.
• Rabbi Yosef Landa, St. Louis, Missouri. Appointed 2022
• Dr. Brad Prager, Columbia, MO. Designee, President of the University of Missouri System.
• Dr. Laura Vedenhaupt, Jefferson City, Missouri. Designee, Commissioner of Higher Education.
• Vacancy – By appointment of the Governor
• Vacancy – By appointment of the Governor
• Vacancy – By appointment of the Governor

In 2021, the Commission created the Holocaust Education Sub-Committee to begin a state-wide effort to identify high-quality Holocaust curriculum resources to be used as a suggested state-wide guide in accordance with the Commission’s mission and design professional development workshops for all educators in the state of Missouri interested in teaching the Holocaust.

• Chair, Lolle Boettcher, Commissioner, Missouri Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission
• Mara Cohen Ioannides, Senior English Instructor, Missouri State University
• Dana Humphrey, Commissioner, Missouri Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission
• Jessica Rockhold, Executive Director, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education
• Helen Turner, Director of Education, St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum