December 25, 2025

Training Leaders and Growing Food

December 25, 2025/ Bayside Community Center

Adam Osorio, Associate Director of Communications at Bayside Community Center, and Kimberly Kustenmacher (KK), a community garden volunteer, discuss the center's mission to empower communities through services, education, and advocacy. KK shares her journey to volunteering through a QR code. Adam and KK talk about the Linda Vista Community Garden, addressing food deserts, and the importance of community engagement. Diana Gonzalez, a resident Leadership Academy graduate, joins Adam and Kimberly, to chat about the program's role in fostering community leadership. Listen to the full episode here.

Bayside Community Center

OUR MISSION is to empower our diverse community to improve its quality of life through services, education, and advocacy.

Our vision is a city where every neighborhood has access to abundant resources that promote community connection and economic self-sufficiency, expand educational and cultural opportunities; and facilitate healthy living and general well-being.

It is extremely important to our organization that this is accomplished while preserving the cultural identity and moving the economic needle in one of San Diego’s most diverse communities – Linda Vista.

Bayside Community Center

2202 Comstock Street | San Diego, CA 92111

PO Box 712525 | San Diego, CA 92171-2525

Telephone: 858.278.0771 | Email: baysideinfo@baysidecc.org

Bayside Community Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity (tax ID# 95-1652902).

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Training Leaders and Growing Food

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