Twenty years into her professional career, Rita Baron is a principal in her own architecture firm, leads a staff of 12 and has projects in more than a dozen states. She also serves on the board of directors for OakStar Bank, for which she was a founding investor, and on the board of trustees for Drury University, where she graduated in 1999.
Sixteen products manufactured across southwest Missouri were selected for inclusion in Springfield Business Journal’s second annual Coolest Things Made in the Ozarks awards.