Trena Pitchford is an executive and creative strategist leading the work of both for-profit and for-purpose organizations for almost three decades throughout the Greater Los Angeles region. As a native Los Angeleno, her passion and values directly align with arts and culture as well as her dedication to creating opportunities for all.

Pitchford’s expertise stems from a lifetime of serving others and achieving goals through program innovation, philanthropy, fiscal management, and collaborative leadership. More recently, she served as the Executive Director of the Open Hearts Foundation, co-founded by actress and philanthropist Jane Seymour, where she grew the charity’s national philanthropic and global volunteerism footprint throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Previous to the Open Hearts Foundation, Pitchford served eight years as the Executive Director of the Burbank Arts for All Foundation where she led the charity’s mission focused on grants and advocacy initiatives in support of arts education in the Burbank Unified School District. During her tenure, the Foundation provided funding for many traditional arts education classes, as well as arts integration in other curricular subjects, and engaged community stakeholders, including citizens, businesses, and civic leaders, in arts education policy and the connection of arts education in schools to Burbank’s creative economy. Burbank Arts for All Foundation was recognized with State Senator Anthony Portantino’s Women In Business Empowerment Award, Association of California School Administrators Region XV Partner in Education Award, and named the 2019 Non-Profit of the Year by Assemblymember Laura Friedman of the 43rd District at the California Non-Profit Day hosted by CalNonprofits.

Throughout her career, Pitchford has been invited to speak on panels and participate in local, regional, and state level task forces for Southern California Leadership Network, Create CA, and Arts for LA, among others. In 2015, she was honored by Business Life Magazine with the Women Achievers Award and, in 2016, was honored as the Citizen of the Year by the Burbank Association of Realtors. She volunteers on the Board of Directors for Leadership Burbank and can be seen hiking on the local trails and patronizing the plethora of arts and culture activities with her family throughout the region. She is an alumna of Arts for LA’s ACTIVATE fellowship, Leadership Burbank, Southern California Leadership Network’s Leadership Southern California, and a graduate of California Institute of the Arts.