Katie Cunningham, Ph.D.

Katie Cunningham is the Director of Education at the Stan Greenspon Holocaust Education Center, where she leads the Center’s educational initiatives and curriculum development. Katie draws on her experience as both an educator and administrator to guide her work today.

Katie has pursued extensive professional development in Holocaust education through numerous prestigious national and international programs, including the Alan Cornell U.S. Campus Faculty Seminar at Yad Vashem, the Echoes & Reflections Advanced Seminar in Israel, and Brandeis University’s Middle and High School Institute on Israel and Antisemitism. She has served on advisory boards and expert panels for the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Historical Society. She is also a Candice and Howard Wolk Fellow at Brandeis University, a founding member of the Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association, and a UNESCO consultant on global Holocaust education initiatives.

Katie holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Secondary Education and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership. She earned her Ph.D. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College, where her dissertation, “Necessary, But Insufficient: Re-envisioning Holocaust Education as an Intervention Against Antisemitism in U.S. Secondary Schools,” examines the role of Holocaust education in addressing and countering antisemitism.

"I do this work because the Jewish community needs knowledgeable, committed non-Jewish allies—and I have seen the power of Holocaust education to help create them. My eighth-grade English teacher, the son of a Holocaust survivor, showed me how one educator can shape not only what students know, but how they understand their responsibility to stand with others. Once I understood what Holocaust education could do, I knew I couldn’t not do this work."