{"id":236031,"date":"2026-03-25T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236031\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:20:07","slug":"natesha-johnson-becomes-first-african-american-elected-to-kern-county-fair-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236031\/","title":{"rendered":"Natesha Johnson becomes first African American elected to Kern County Fair board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County is seeing a historic choice in leadership for a local organization as we celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month.<\/p>\n<p>Business Owner Natesha Johnson has been elected as chair of the Kern County Fair Board, making her the first African American to hold the position.<\/p>\n<p>She is inspiring future generations of leaders by breaking barriers and creating better representation in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson joined ARC Bakersfield to share her story and what she hopes to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County is seeing a historic choice in leadership for a local organization as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-236031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}