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…