{"id":17800,"date":"2023-03-27T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=17800"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:19:57","slug":"60-second-interview-kendra-jacobs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2023\/03\/27\/60-second-interview-kendra-jacobs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"60-Second Interview: Kendra Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ui-provider wi b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">March is Women\u2019s History Month, and this year we wanted to share a few quick, 60-second interviews to highlight the amazing women at Envoy who work hard, inspire others and lead our airline into a successful future.<\/span> Here, we speak with Kendra Jacobs who the Manager of Baggage Operations at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York City.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What is your Envoy story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started in aviation because of the passion I had in the tourism industry.\u00a0 My journey started in 2000 at St. Kitts in the Caribbean, when I wanted to work for American Eagle because they were flying around the Caribbean Sea and mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Having my daughters growing up in the U.S. was an incentive for me to transfer to LGA in 2017 as a Lead Agent. After a sterling performance during my first three months, I was promoted to Customer Services Supervisor. In 2021, I was offered the newest challenge of Baggage Operations Manager, which is my current role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the most rewarding part about your current role?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making a difference in others&#8217; lives, meeting new people from various walks of life, having positive relationships with my colleagues, making an impact on so many of our customers &#8212; all of these are facets that enrich my day!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What woman has inspired you in your life and\/or career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many women leaders that I&#8217;ve looked up to but the one that stands out the most is Delrah Lestrade-Lapsley, who is the current Envoy General Manager in St. Kitts. She\u2019s as solid as a rock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What might people not know about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growing up and living in rural St. Kitts, I was close to the beach. Yet, I cannot swim to save my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is Women\u2019s History Month, and this year we wanted to share a few quick, 60-second interviews to highlight the amazing women at Envoy who work hard, inspire others and lead our airline into a successful future. Here, we speak with Kendra Jacobs who the Manager of Baggage Operations at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":41770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[629,664,628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}