It is considered to be one of the fasted growing criminal industries across the planet: human Trafficking. A Missouri group called Ignite: Sparking Action Against Sex Trafficking is hosting what it says is the first national, comprehensive conference on sex trafficking. It is estimated that there are least 300,000 children nationwide, and more than one million worldwide, who are at…
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month in the United States and one Missouri group is joining in to help put a stop to this crime. Exchange Initiative based out of St. Louis is holding the Ignite Conference on March 2-4.The conference will bring together professionals from law enforcement, medical, education, and community groups to help better understand and coordinate action…
Molly Hackett of the Exchange Initiative joined us to talk about human trafficking in the US. play Total Information AM Doug McElvein 00:01 KMOX-AM ©January 2014
Sr. Camille: Kim, you and your red-jacketed associates at Nix Conference & Meeting Management are easily recognized at assemblies of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. How would you describe your service to that organization and to many others? Kimberly Ritter: Nix is responsible for managing the meeting, conference and trade show. Corporations, associations, religious organizations, businesses and nonprofits have…
Special Events Business News for Oct. 9, 2013 Nix Conference and Meeting Management, based in St. Louis, Mo., has launched the Exchange Initiative, a new organization dedicated to ending child and teen sex trafficking through resources, information and networking. Exchange Initiative is planning its first national conference on sex trafficking to promote global awareness and understanding of the issue while…
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Nix Conference & Meeting Management has launched Exchange Initiative, a new organization dedicated to ending child and teen sex trafficking through resources, information and networking. Exchange Initiative is planning its first national conference on sex trafficking to promote global awareness and understanding of the issue while sparking real action at the local level. The conference will…
Five years ago, the all-female staff at US-based meetings management company Nix assumed human trafficking was something that happened in other countries. But when one client asked them to arrange a meeting in a hotel which took a stand against sex trafficking, they decided to look deeper into the issue. They were shocked to discover that hotels across the world,…
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Last week KMOX News told you about the horrors of child sex trafficking in the St. Louis region. Now more on new efforts to stop it. In recent years, Nix Conference and Meeting Management has been working with the hotel industry to train employees. “The housekeepers, the front desk, your bellmen, they see things that are…
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – As the FBI cracked down on child sex traffickers nationwide last weekend — arresting 159 pimps and rescuing 105 children — Nix Conference & Meeting Management was working behind the scenes, planning a conference on the issue and urging hotels managers to set policies and train employees on ways to spot child prostitution. “Hotel staff and…
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – In a recent ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III recognized Kimberly Ritter of St. Charles with the 2012 Director’s Community Leadership Award. Ritter, a senior account manager at Nix Conference & Meeting Management, was one of just 58 leaders nationwide selected by area FBI field offices for outstanding contributions to…
