40 Under 40 Class of 2024

Jacob Kinsel, 31

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Jacob Kinsel was working in maintenance and saw himself living a blue-collar life when, one day, an accounting professor pulled him aside after class at community college. 

“I was showing up on my lunch break to go to classes, paint stains all over my uniform, bleach stains from working on pools,” Kinsel says, recalling his days attending Tallahassee Community College while working as a maintenance manager in student housing apartments. 

Jacob Kinsel with his mentor, his mom Dawna Cantway.
Photo by Mark Wemple

 

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Elizabeth King

Elizabeth is a business news reporter with the Business Observer, covering primarily Sarasota-Bradenton, in addition to other parts of the region. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, she previously covered hyperlocal news in Maryland for Patch for 12 years. Now she lives in Sarasota County.