Richard Baron is the Board Chair and founder of Urban Strategies, a national non-profit that develops, coordinates, and implements community supportive service plans that seek to provide critical social services for low-income residents of urban core communities. He is also the Chairman and CEO of McCormack Baron Salazar in St. Louis, Missouri, a firm specializing in the development and management of mixed-income communities with an emphasis on large-scale redevelopment projects in central city locations.