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Kim Delevett |
| As Southwest Airlines’ Community Affairs Manager, Kim is charged with developing high-profile, grassroots initiatives that positively impact the communities Southwest serves—locally, regionally and nationally. Her mission is to provide support and advocacy for educational, political and cultural programs, with a special emphasis on the Asian American community. Prior to her current role, Kim spent eight years as Southwest’s San Jose/Silicon Valley Marketing Manager. As the Company’s face in Silicon Valley, she juggled a variety of roles: representing Southwest to elected officials, contributing to local and national nonprofits, promoting travel programs to Fortune 500 technology companies, and speaking with the media and community groups. She has supported various ethnic organizations and chambers of commerce and been featured in ethnic and mainstream media. Kim was born in Saigon, Vietnam and fled the country with her older brother in April of 1975. They were raised by an adoptive family in Pensacola, Florida. Kim earned a B.A. with honors in communications with a minor in political science from Loyola University of New Orleans and has worked for Southwest since 1996. Kim and her husband Peter, an editor at the San Jose Mercury News, moved to San Jose in 1998 from New Orleans and now live in San Jose's Japantown. Kim’s hobbies include travel and photography, and her travel photos have been published in the Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times, and at WorldHum.com. Even though Kim and Peter love to travel the world, they are looking forward to taking a break as they welcome their first child, James, who's due in August 2008.
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My Match Made in Heaven |
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Our tribute to Colleen continues this week.
I didn't attend our Company's recent Awards Banquet on June 28th, but I vividly remember the one I attended two years ago for my Southwest Tenth Anniversary. |
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The Circle of Life - Southwest Style, of Course! |
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April was a memorable month for me, as I participated in significant milestones for two Southwest Employees and experienced one myself while in Moscow! |
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Proud to be Asian American |
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Last year, we introduced Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with facts and FUN trivia questions. Today, I want to share a few words from our President: Categories: Working at Southwest May 19, 2008 |
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Creating Memories, Traditions, and GIRL POWER! Priceless . . . |
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In an earlier blog entry, I shared my thoughts about visiting my extended Vietnamese family in the humid Mekong Delta with my husband, sisters-in-law, and Southwest Coworkers. A month later, I had another amazing family reunion; however, this time, it was in chilly Chicago with an exclusive group: The Delevett Granddaughters. Categories: Southwest Culture May 06, 2008 |
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The ABC's of Southwest Airlines' Corporate Community Affairs Team |
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I recently attended my first Corporate Community Relations Consortium meeting in San Jose, where corporate community relations/affairs professionals network and share benchmarks. I left the meeting feeling a sense of pride for what these committed colleagues (representing Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo, Intel, eBay, HP, Cisco Systems, and Adobe to name a few) collectively contribute Categories: Southwest Culture May 03, 2008 |
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