Unity Awards Gala

Thursday, September 8, 2022 · Hotel St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

Thanks to all who supported Show Me Integrity’s 2022 Unity Awards Gala—Missouri’s premier event celebrating our shared future!

Founded in 2018, the Show Me Integrity coalition has successfully convened business and civic leaders across the state and political spectrum to ensure effective, ethical government with transformational results.

We’re so grateful to all who supported our first ever Unity Awards Gala. As a community, we celebrated cross-partisan achievements while looking towards a shared future of better, more effective government. Because of you, our people-powered movement will continue to get real results in the years ahead. Stay tuned for updates on our 2023 Gala!

2022 Award Recipients

  • John C. Danforth

    LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

    Former Senator & Ambassador to the United Nations

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  • LaShana M. Lewis

    LEADERSHIP AWARD

    CEO, L.M. Lewis Consulting

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  • Andrew Yang

    NATIONAL TRAILBLAZER AWARD

    Founder, Forward Party & Venture for America

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Gala Host Committee

Andrew and Mary Brain, Debra and Mark Burgess, Amy Cordes, Martha Fitz, Robert R Hermann Jr., Dr. Wally Siewert, David and Cathi Brain, Chapel Law Group, Benny and Hannah Fong, Dena Ladd, Eric and Halli Bronner, Maxine Clark, Yinka Faleti, Amy and Amrit Gill, Rudy Nickens, Adeyemo ‘Adey’ Sodipo.

Learn More About Our Award Recipients

Show Me Integrity builds coalitions of business and civic leaders to promote bipartisanship, diversity, accountability, and ethics in government. On September 8, 2022 we gathered at our first ever Unity Awards Gala to honor and celebrate leaders who have lived these values and worked to create a government of, by, and for the people.

A tribute to LaShana Lewis. Lewis received the Leadership Award at the 2022 Unity Awards Gala.

A tribute to Andrew Yang. Yang received the National Trailblazer Award at the 2022 Unity Awards Gala.

LaShana Lewis shares why she supports Show Me Integrity.

Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear and Delmar DivINe and Show Me Integrity supporter, honors her friend LaShana Lewis.

Introducing Show Me Integrity Education Fund Board Chair LaShana Lewis—with a special cameo from a former President!

Amy Gill, Founder and Executive Vice President of Restoration St. Louis, honors her friend LaShana Lewis.

Jason Hall, CEO of Greater St. Louis, Inc., honors his friend LaShana Lewis.

Jim McKelvey, founder of Block (formerly Square) and Launch Code, pays tribute to his friend LaShana M. Lewis.

A tribute to John C. “Jack” Danforth. Danforth received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Unity Awards Gala.

John Danforth shares why he supports Show Me Integrity.

Tom Stillman, Chairman of the St. Louis Blues and CEO of Summit Distributing, honors his father-in-law John C. "Jack" Danforth.

Ed L. Dowd Jr., Founding Partner at Dowd Bennett LLP and former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, honors his friend John C. "Jack" Danforth.

Robert Hermann Jr., Chairman and CEO of Hermann Companies, honors his friend Jack Danforth.

John Inazu, author and Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis, honors his friend Jack Danforth.

Jason Hall, CEO of Greater St. Louis, Inc., pays tribute to Jack Danforth.

Rudy Nickens, Board Chair of the Deaconess Foundation, honors his friend Former U.S. Senator Jack Danforth.

Show Me Integrity by the numbers

 

  • 246 volunteers across the political spectrum working together for more transparent, efficient, and accountable government

  • 1,118 corporations represented in our meetings with Sen. Roy Blunt’s office on behalf of Business for America for safe, secure, accessible, credible elections

  • 3,899 miles traveled by Chief Executive Officer Benjamin Singer building the movement outside the St. Louis area

  • 16,000 Missouri voters requested an absentee ballot safely and securely through MOVote.org

  • 59,011 signatures gathered for nonpartisan ballot measures for good government

  • 69% voted yes in St. Louis to pass Proposition R, bringing long-overdue conflict-of-interest and redistricting reform to the Board of Aldermen

  • 68% voted yes in St. Louis to pass Proposition D, implementing nonpartisan approval voting to create the best election system in the country

  • 37 groups across Missouri received presentations about defending Missouri's 115-year-old citizen ballot initiative petition process

  • $1,048,194.92 raised for Show Me Integrity, Show Me Integrity Education Fund, and Show Me Integrity Action Fund

Thank You to Our 2022 Gala Sponsors, Including: