Meet merged Pinellas, Hillsborough workforce agency’s first CEO

A recently consolidated workforce agency’s inaugural chief executive officer hopes to bolster apprenticeship programs and reach disconnected youth throughout Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties in 2025.

Keidrian Kunkel will not officially take the helm at CareerSource Hillsborough Pinellas until Jan. 9. However, she is ready to hit the ground running after an arduous - and oft-contentious - nationwide search for the organization's first leader. CareerSource’s workforce development consortium named Kunkel the new CEO at a Dec. 9 meeting.

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The Catalyst interview: Patton Oswalt

There was a time – quite a few years, in fact – when Patton Oswalt was best known as the guy who voiced the gourmet-cooking rat in the Pixar movie Ratatouille.

These days, his four standup comedy specials for Netflix are in regular rotation, he’s an Emmy winner, and a Grammy winner (four of his albums went to No. 1 on the Billboard Comedy Chart), he’s written comic books, voiced video games and is a notorious cinephile, which means he watches movies morning, noon and night, and can converse on the art of film with the precision of a critic and the zeal of a true fan.

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