Jennifer Trainer

Jennifer Trainer is the president and CEO of Hancock Shaker Village, praised by her coworkers for being kind and inclusive, as well as being innovative in her programming and committed to the city of Pittsfield. Prior to her employment at the Village, Jennifer had tenure as senior vice president of partnerships and external affairs at MASS MoCA, where she spent 28 years of her impressive career, starting as director of development and PR. She directed the film Museum Town, a portrait of MASS MoCA, and you might recognize her as a model from Gregory Crewdson’s work “Cathedral of the Pines,” examples of her abounding connectivity to the arts.