Bessie Boehm Moore

The BMCEE was named in honor of Bessie Boehm Moore. Moore founded the Arkansas Council on Economic Education and fostered its development into one of the preeminent councils in the nation. In the early years, she raised money, recruited the teachers, developed the program, and conducted the workshops in a manner that was much admired throughout the country. Moore has inspired and had a seminal influence on virtually everyone involved in economic education in Arkansas and in much of the rest of the nation as well. The national leadership award given annually to the outstanding economic educator in the U.S. is named the Bessie Moore award. Moore molded the program so that her imprint is on all that we do today. Any success that the current program has experienced is rooted in the work of Bessie Moore.