{"id":520073,"date":"2026-11-06T02:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520073\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:06:34","slug":"leadership-bakersfield-celebrates-40-years-of-developing-community-leaders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520073\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Bakersfield celebrates 40 years of developing community leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A program dedicated to developing local leaders and strengthening the Bakersfield community is celebrating a major milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership Bakersfield, a professional development program offered through the Greater Bakersfield Chamber, is marking its 40th anniversary after helping more than 1,200 people develop leadership skills and gain a deeper understanding of the community. Janelle Capra, president and CEO of the Greater Bakersfield Chamber, and Marc Caputo, a Leadership Bakersfield Council member, joined ARC Bakersfield to discuss the program&#8217;s history, impact and future.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1987, Leadership Bakersfield is a 10-month program designed to help participants build leadership skills, connect with community leaders and better understand the issues shaping Bakersfield and Kern County.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the program, participants explore a variety of industries and sectors, including health care, education, agriculture and government.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to give emerging leaders a broader understanding of how different parts of the community operate and how they can work together to address local challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A program dedicated to developing local leaders and strengthening the Bakersfield community is celebrating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-520073","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\/520073","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=520073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}