{"id":23105,"date":"2020-05-27T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/alexis-kimbrough-values-listening-with-communication\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:13:00","slug":"20-under-40-alexis-kimbrough-values-listening-with-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/20-under-40-alexis-kimbrough-values-listening-with-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Under 40: Alexis Kimbrough values listening with communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/ProfileKimbrough-shn-052720-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/ProfileKimbrough-shn-052720-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/ProfileKimbrough-shn-052720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/ProfileKimbrough-shn-052720-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/ProfileKimbrough-shn-052720-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/05\/ProfileKimbrough-shn-052720-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Alexis Kimbrough, 25, started working with the county after moving to Grand from Oklahoma to be closer to family. Her goal now is to get creative with the county\u2019s communications.<\/strong><br \/><em>Robert Mendoza \/ Sky-Hi News<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">Working as Grand County\u2019s communications coordinator, as well as chairing the county\u2019s 2020 Census Count, Alexis Kimbrough didn\u2019t expect to have to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic on top of her daily duties. However, she was quick to jump into the fray by becoming the co-spokesperson for the county\u2019s COVID-19 response team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">Her nomination notes that she\u2019s dedicated not just to her job, but to her community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">\u201cShe has become an essential part of our community and her compassion for Grand County shows in everything she does,\u201d Kimbrough\u2019s nomination said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">In her first year on the job, Kimbrough redesigned the county\u2019s website, logo, internal newsletters and began the process of building and implementing a new visual identity. She also continues to helm the county\u2019s census efforts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row shn-donation shn-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\"><strong>What made you choose to live and work in Grand County?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">My mom and my stepfather moved here when I was in college, so when I graduated, it was like I could stay in Oklahoma or I could move to this beautiful area. It was kind of a no-brainer for me. I moved to be closer to them, because \u2026 it\u2019s really important to me to be near my mom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\"><strong>Where do you see yourself in 10 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">I would love to see where government positions take me. I really enjoy being on the (COVID-19) incident management team because it\u2019s helping people. But I guess I don\u2019t have an end point because I\u2019m more the person who rides the wave and takes opportunities when they come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\"><strong>How has COVID-19 changed the way your industry does business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">I work more than I previously did. I\u2019m constantly sifting through orders and laws and helping to simplify and explain them. The most challenging thing is that people interpret things differently and every person receives information differently, so utilizing as many methods and interpreting it in as many ways as possible is either the ultimate challenge or the dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\"><strong>Who is your hero and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">Definitely, my mom. She didn\u2019t have the best childhood, divorced my dad when I was very young, didn\u2019t go to college, yet raised my brother and I, all while working. She worked her way up to the vice president of a bank, all without a degree, just really hard work, while being a single mom. When my mom got sick, it never affected who she was as a person or her character. That\u2019s the one thing my mom instilled in me, it will never matter who you are or what you look like if you don\u2019t have the character to back it up. My stepdad would probably be a close second, because at times, he would work three jobs to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\"><strong>What advice or encouragement would you offer a young professional trying to make it in the county?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox Text\">To listen. Communication is not all about telling. If I was not to listen, I could communicate the entirely wrong thing. That\u2019s definitely the No. 1 thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/in-depth\/20-under-40\/alexis-kimbrough-values-listening-with-communication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Kimbrough, 25, started working with the county after moving to Grand from Oklahoma to be closer to family. Her goal now is to get creative with the county\u2019s communications.Robert Mendoza \/ Sky-Hi News Working as Grand County\u2019s communications coordinator, as well as chairing the county\u2019s 2020 Census Count, Alexis Kimbrough didn\u2019t expect to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 12:06:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}