Jewish Federation of St. Louis has announced the award winners to be honored at the 2024 Evening of Impact to be held Thursday, May 9. Dafna Revah and MaryAnn Smyly Sabin have been chosen as the recipients of the 2024 David N. and Roselin Grosberg Young Leadership Award and Andrew Goldfeder as the recipient of the Fred A. Goldstein Professional Excellence Award.
Dafna is currently a board member of the Jewish Federation and is on the Women’s Philanthropy CommUNITY Event Committee, as well as the Lion/POM Committee. She joined the Jewish Federation Board in 2019 and has served as co-chair for our Major Donor Event.
Dafna moved to St. Louis in 2014 after completing a bachelor’s degree in human rights from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in modern Jewish studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She worked as a grant writer and interim Young Professionals Society associate for the Jewish Federation of St. Louis until 2015. In the same year, she joined the St. Louis Business Journal as audience development director, a role that involved planning and leading events for their Women’s Society and small groups.
Today, Dafna is the vice president of CBD Kratom, the largest privately owned cannabis and kratom dispensary retail chain in the United States.
MaryAnne will be a co-chair for the next Women’s Philanthropy trip to Israel and was most recently the chair for the Women’s Philanthropy CommUNITY event held on April 7. MaryAnne’s involvement with Federation started with YPD and she has since co-chaired one of the most successful L’Chaim events, which raised more than $500,000 for the Annual Campaign. Additionally, she has served on the Women’s Philanthropy Board, Women’s Philanthropy Community Service Committee, chaired Hanukkah Hugs, the Shower committee, the Pomegranate Appreciation event committee, Professional Society event committee and co-chaired the Jewish Federation’s One Night Four City Event. In addition to leadership roles in the Jewish community, MaryAnne has also held leadership roles with Ready Readers, St. Louis County SAVE and Stray Rescue, Old Bonhomme Elementary School and COCA. She also served as the Outreach Chair for Sababa, is an alum of the JWRP Mission to Israel and once again will travel to Israel with Federation on a special solidarity trip later this May.
Andrew Goldfeder is the recipient of the Fred A. Goldstein Professional Excellence Award. Since Sept. 2018, Andrew has served as the Executive Director of Temple Emanuel. Before joining Temple Emanuel, Andrew spent over nine years with the St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (currently St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum), where he served as their Manager of Programs and Logistics. Andrew’s distinguished recognitions over the years include the J Associates Mitzvah Star Award and the JPro Emerging Leader Award. Andrew was also a volunteer for the St. Louis Senior Olympics for over a decade and was a volunteer adviser for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization. He is currently a Board member of Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis, is a community volunteer for St. Louis NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) and enjoys donating his time at Green Trails Elementary School, where his children attend school.
Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ 2024 Evening of Impact will be Thursday, May 9 at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. The event is being held from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, and the program will begin at 6:00 pm. An Evening of Impact is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register at: jfedstl.org/events/an-evening-of-impact/. Dietary laws observed.
For more information, contact Amanda Miller at 314-442-3884 or [email protected].
