Serving as the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Cascadia Chamber Opera, Bereniece Jones-Centeno is an arts administrator, educator, and musician, and is happy to call Astoria Oregon home after moving from Eugene in 2016. She moved to Oregon from Chicago in 2008 to sing for Eugene Opera and later become the President of the Board. She also studied at the University of Oregon where she completed her Master of Music degree and the Arts and Administration program. She was introduced to Astoria through the Astoria Music Festival in 2009 working as a director for the apprentice program and eventually becoming the Managing Director for the 2016 festival year. To briefly assist with programming, she was the Artistic Director at the Liberty Theatre in 2017. Later that year, Governor Kate Brown appointed Bereniece to the board of the Oregon Cultural Trust where she is currently completing the first of two terms. Bereniece has recently become the Executive Director of the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts and she is the Career Preparation Program Supervisor at Tongue Point Job Corps Center, a vocational trades program of the Department of Labor.