Mission Statement
Show Me Integrity Education Fund empowers ordinary people through civic education, leadership development, and policy research, building a cross-partisan movement in which neighbors and communities can decide their own future. Together, we work toward a more accountable, ethical, and effective government of, by, and for the people.
Show Me Integrity Education Fund is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) public charity.
Our Team
Benjamin D. Singer
CEO | University City
Benjamin D. Singer leads Show Me Integrity Education Fund’s work to help ordinary people participate effectively in democracy through civic education, leadership development, policy research, and community engagement.
Since 2012, Benjamin has worked with Republican, Democratic, and independent civic leaders on government ethics, election policy, redistricting, voting, and democratic participation. His work has focused on bringing people with different political perspectives together to understand public problems, evaluate potential solutions, and strengthen public participation in government.
In 2021, Show Me Integrity and the Missouri NAACP received the American Civic Collaboration Award for a voter-participation project that brought together Republican former Governor Matt Blunt and Democratic former Secretary of State Jason Kander to help Missourians understand their voting options during the pandemic.
Benjamin is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he was a National Merit Scholar. He is active in the Jewish community, an award-winning filmmaker, and grew up performing in several plays at the Muny.
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.
Sally Strauss Lang
Board Member | St. Louis
Sally Strauss Lang brings decades of nonprofit, community, and civic engagement experience to the Show Me Integrity Education Fund board. Before retiring in 2023, Sally held leadership roles at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center, most recently serving as Human Resources Manager and Community Relations Director.
Sally remains deeply involved in nonprofit and community service and has volunteered extensively on civic education, voter participation, and community-engagement efforts.
Sally is passionate about strengthening representative democracy and helping more people participate in the civic process. She has devoted significant volunteer time to voter education, outreach, and get-out-the-vote efforts and believes democracy works best when every eligible voter has the opportunity, information, and encouragement to make their voice heard.
Cyril Loum
Treasurer, Show Me Integrity Education Fund | St. Louis County
Cyril Loum is the Assistant Director of Venture Development at Skandalaris Center at Washington University in St. Louis and an Adjunct Professor at St. Louis University. He also serves on the St. Louis City Board of Health and Hospitals and the board of Lutheran Foundation St. Louis. Previously Cyril served as Executive Director of Caring Ministries, Inc. (CMI), which serves low-income families, immigrants, and refugees in achieving self-sufficiency and sustainable housing in St. Louis. He has a degree in Political Science and Communication from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and an M.A. in Legal Studies from Webster University. Cyril is a certified paralegal and interned in the office of former Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay. He was born in Gambia and moved to America when he was seven years old.
Rudy Nickens
Governance Member | St. Louis
Rudy is an executive coach, facilitator, educator, entrepreneur and thought leader with expertise in cultural diversity, business management and community development. For over two decades, Nickens has consulted, educated and trained hundreds of local, national and international organizations in workforce diversity, leadership development, cultural competence and conflict resolution. He specializes in efforts to eliminate the effects of internalized racism and sexism and violence against women.
Prior to joining Evolution Rudy was the Director for Equal Opportunity and Diversity for the Missouri Department of Transportation which has a budget of over $2.6 billion and more than 6,000 employees. In the wake of the death of Michael Brown, Jr in 2014 , the governor of Missouri asked for Rudy to work with the Ferguson Commission whose mission was to conduct a “thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and economic conditions that impede progress, equality and safety in the St. Louis region.”
Rudy also served as Executive Director of The St. Louis Black Repertory Company and Vice President of St. Louis 2004, a civic organization created to act as a catalyst for community development. Beyond his organizational leadership roles, Rudy owned and operated The Sunshine Inn for years which in addition to having great food was an institution that proved a place and resources for all kinds of community activity from art to politics to community organizing.
Rudy earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellow, he received the Ethics Project’s Inaugural Ambassador Andrew Young Award for outstanding leadership and the Robert Bradley Award for distinguished service.
We’re always interested in meeting Missourians from different backgrounds and perspectives who may be interested in serving on the Show Me Integrity Education Fund Board. You can apply here.