Whenever someone says, “I started my job in January 2020,” an interesting story is bound to follow.
Jenny Rogers, Beverly Hills Director of Community Services, is no exception. Rogers came to Beverly Hills from Mill Valley in Marin County, where she served as Director of Arts and Recreation. A trained painter, photographer, and videographer with an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, Rogers arrived with ambitious plans to transform the city into an even more dynamic center of arts, culture, and recreation. Before the pandemic, she was planning a community-wide symposium drawing together arts organizations, non-profits, and the business sector to discuss options for how to expand the city’s reputation as a center of the arts. She also sent out a city-wide survey asking residents what kinds of new arts programming they’d like to see moving forward.
