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Sex Trafficking

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Maplewood Executive Honored for Work Combatting Sex Trafficking

Kimberly Ritter will be honored for her work at FBI Headquarters in April.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported Kimberly Ritter's professional affiliations. A corrected version appears below. An account executive for a Maplewood conference planning firm has been honored by the FBI for her work protecting children from sex trafficking. Kimberly Ritter will travel to FBI headquarters in Washington in April to receive the 2012 Director's Community Leadership Award. According to a statement from the FBI, Ritter, in her job with Nix Conference & Meeting Management based in Maplewood, has opportunities to raise awareness about sex trafficking with hotel general managers. "Ms. Ritter first became aware of the problem four-and-a-half years ago when a client wanted to know if the hotel she was booking for…

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Maplewood Meeting Planner Wins FBI Recognition

Kimberly Ritter, of Nix Conference & Meeting Management, won the Director’s Community Leadership Award for her work in sex trafficking awareness.

Tuesday, Dean C. Bryant, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI St. Louis Division, presented the 2012 Director's Community Leadership Award to Kimberly Ritter, of St. Charles, at a surprise ceremony. Ms. Ritter was honored for her efforts to protect children from sex trafficking. As a senior account manager at Nix Conference & Meeting Management, based in Maplewood, Ritter uses the opportunity during meetings with hotel general managers to raise awareness about sex trafficking. Ritter first became aware of the problem four-and-a-half years ago when a client wanted to know if the hotel she was booking for them had a policy on sex trafficking. Since that time, Ritter’s employer, Nix, initiated and signed the first-ever Meeting Planners Code of …

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