Jennifer Laine

Jennifer Laine has served as Executive Director of the San Benito County Arts Council, a State-Local Partner to the California Arts Council, since 2010. As Executive Director, she has raised millions of dollars arts funding for the county, opened two multi-disciplinary art spaces in downtown Hollister, co-founded the City of Hollister’s Public Art Review Committee, advocated for arts in education and developed dedicated arts programming for some of the area’s most underserved communities, including low-income youth, veterans, students with disabilities and youth in corrections. Jennifer has served as a grant panelist for the California Arts Council and currently serves as Board President of the Hazel Hawkins Hospital Foundation and on the Board of Directors of Californians for the Arts/California Arts Advocates. She holds a B.A. in Art History from UC Santa Cruz and a M.A. in Global Studies from the University of Leipzig, Germany. She is a certified Zumba Instructor and trained modern dancer. Jennifer resides in Hollister with her husband and three children.