Kanika Jelks-Tomalin, 39

Deputy Mayor, City of St. Petersburg

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 10:50 a.m. October 10, 2014
  • Class of 2014
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Kanika Jelks-Tomalin was born and raised in St. Petersburg. As a member of her family’s fifth generation living in the city, she’s surrounded by more than 250 relatives. Some of those relatives are in the top percentile, while others live in poverty. That’s exactly the reason why Tomalin has a passion to “change the story of St. Pete.”

 

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