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425 South Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri, 63131
United States

"LandSpeed" Louise Noeth

Louise Ann Noeth, aka “Landspeed Louise,” founded LandSpeed Productions in California offering creative writing, photography, design, and public relations in 1984. She authored the leading historical reference book, Bonneville Salt Flats, in print for 11 years through seven printings and consults for the film and television industries on extreme speed. In July 2021, she released Bonneville’s Women of Land Speed Racing, an inspiring work heralding the speed records of women. Ms. Noeth’s award-winning writing and photographic work has been published in several languages around the world including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Car and Driver, Automobile, Motor Trend, and Smithsonian, among others. For 12 years her nationally distributed column, Fuel For Thought, gave readers an insider's view of speed. She is a licensed airplane pilot, blue water sailor, and joyfully sings first tenor with sacred music choirs. Highly skilled behind the wheel of any car, truck, or motorcycle, she derives great pleasure from driving in excess of 100 miles per hour whenever possible.

Amy Camie

Amy Camie, recognized as “The Healing Harpist,” is a Certified Clinical Musician, speaker, author, and 2-time breast cancer thriver who loves empowering others with unique perspectives on how music, resonance, and honest self-exploration create bridges of compassion within ourselves and empathy with others. As a pioneer in the field of harp therapy, Amy has co-authored two clinical trials and several pilot studies demonstrating the effects of her music on brain waves, immune system function, and anxiety levels. Certified in Intercultural Creativity®, Amy recognizes the potential opportunity for learning in every experience. She encourages audiences to open their mind, expand their perceptions, observe beyond the current happenings, and discover deeper connections within themselves, creating more clarity, peace, and harmony within and around them. Amy's original music is used in hospitals, cancer centers, and hospices as well as for general relaxation and stress reduction. Her inspired music relaxes the body, calms the mind, and gently soothes the soul. As one woman said, "You touch others in such a deep place with your music because it comes from such a deep place inside of you."

Dre'Co Dre'Co

Dre'Co is a national hip-hop artist that loves and is a spokesperson for St. Louis.

Kelly Pollock

In 2022, Kelly Pollock took the helm at the Berges Family Foundation, serving as the Foundation’s first Chief Executive Officer. In that capacity, Pollock guides the Foundation’s philanthropic investments and community partnerships aimed at making St. Louis a great place to live, visit, work, and invest. Prior to this role, for more than 24 years, Pollock served an integral leader at COCA-Center of Creative Arts. As Executive Director (2010-2022), she expanded COCA’s impact through innovative programs, significantly grew its reserves and endowment, and forged key partnerships. Committed to using the arts to address inequities, she shaped COCA’s vision: to use the power of the arts and education to build a vibrant St. Louis that is creative, connected, and inclusive. Additionally, she led COCA’s successful Create Our Future Campaign, securing $49 million to build the organization’s endowment and expand its historic building. COCA’s 52,000-square-foot addition was completed and opened in August 2020. Pollock has been recognized as a U.S.A. Eisenhower Fellow; YWCA Leader of Distinction; Saint Louis Visionary Award winner; Most Influential Business Woman by the St. Louis Business Journal; and one of 35 “Bold Minds Creating a Better St. Louis” by ALIVE Magazine. She earned a B.A. in History from Washington University and a Master of Public Policy Administration degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Michael Woods

Michael Woods is the President and CEO of Dream Builders 4 Equity, an organization working to develop economically sustainable and socially engaged communities by growing equity for youth, businesses, residents, and real estate.

Nick Holekamp

Nick Holekamp, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer at Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital. He joined in 2000, and for nearly two decades, he’s helped more than 2,000 children and their families transition from a traditional hospital to home after chronic illness or injuries. Under Dr. Holekamp’s leadership, Ranken Jordan transitioned from a 26-bed pediatric nursing home into a 60-bed, advanced pediatric specialty hospital that is regionally recognized as a center of excellence for the care of children with medical complexities. In 2018, he oversaw a $35-million expansion that nearly doubled the hospital’s capacity, and he continues to lead initiatives that ensure a collaborative, high-quality, patient-centered care environment. He is the chief advocate for carrying out the vision of the hospital’s founder, Mary Ranken Jordan, which was to care for kids beyond the bedside. Dr. Holekamp gives kids their best chance for recovery through Care Beyond the Bedside, the hospital’s care philosophy that melds traditional health care with playful therapies that allows for routine child development, effective rehabilitation, and social re-integration so kids and their families can prepare for successful outcomes at home. His work has helped mold Ranken Jordan into a facility that parents describe as a “seamless, yet critical transition” for their child and that is held in high esteem by medical professionals across the healthcare continuum. In 2017, Dr. Holekamp co-authored “The Effect of a Comprehensive Care Transition Model on Cost and Utilization for Medically Complex Children with Cerebral Palsy”, a research paper published in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care. In October, 2018, Dr. Holekamp presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Complex Care Association in a talk titled, “An Innovative Model of Transitional Care for Medically Complex Children.” In 2019, the Missouri Foundation for Health named Dr. Holekamp the Dr. Corinne Walentik Leadership in Health Award. Dr. Holekamp earned a degree in biology from Dartmouth College before graduating from Saint Louis University School of Medicine in 1987. He completed his residency in pediatric and adolescent medicine at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. Prior to joining Ranken Jordan, he was a pediatric hospitalist at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis.

Regina Mossotti

Regina Mossotti began her career at the Saint Louis Zoo as a research intern and then joined the team at the Endangered Wolf Center as a wolf keeper. After receiving her Master’s of Science in Zoology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale researching cheetah mating behavior in collaboration with the research team at the Saint Louis Zoo, she worked as a field biologist researching carnivores—from wolf behavior in the wild as part of the Yellowstone Wolf Project to working with the University of California, Santa Cruz catching and collaring mountain lions in the wilds of California, researching their territorial and predator-prey behavior. Regina began work on her PhD at Oregon State University until the song of the wolves called her back to the Endangered Wolf Center in 2011 where she took on the role of Director of Animal Care and Conservation. In 2023, Regina joined the world renowned Saint Louis Zoo as the Vice President of Animal Care. She also currently: sits on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) National Red Wolf Recovery Team, is the Program Leader for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Red Wolf SAFE Program (Saving Animals From Extinction), serves on AZA’s Mexican Wolf and African Painted Dog Management Teams, and is the FWS Mexican Wolf SAFE Pup Foster Advisor.

Ron Himes

Ron Himes is the Founder and Producing Director of The Black Rep, a Theatre of Soul since 1976. It's mission is to provide platforms for theatre, dance, and other creative expressions from the African-American perspective that heighten the social and cultural awareness of its audiences.