Beverly Main Streets Executive Director To Depart At End Of 2025

BEVERLY, MA — Beverly Main Streets Executive Director Erin Truex will leave her role with the downtown business, tourism and event organization at the end of the year, saying in a message to the community on Wednesday: "It's simply the right moment to pass the baton to the fearless leader who can continue the work we've started together."

Truex became the executive director in January 2024.

"This might feel like a strange time to announce such news, but with Thanksgiving looming, it's hard not to express my thankfulness for Beverly," she said. "When I look back at everything we've accomplished, I'm torn between laughing, crying, and submitting the whole story to BevCam to ensure it is recorded for posterity."

Truex said she is proud of driving $300,000 in revenue to independent artists through vending opportunities, the objectives set forth in the Downtown 2030 initiative, the launch of a public-facing, accessible art gallery and building the business and civic coalition that she said is "stronger, louder and more determined than ever."

"None of this happened because of a single person — least of all me," she said. "It happened because you showed up. You donated, volunteered, emailed, shared, pushed, pulled, and cheered us on.

"You believed in the mission, you believed in Beverly, and refused to settle for 'good enough' when we knew all this community is capable of. As we near Beverly's 400th anniversary, I can honestly say the best is yet to come."

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Truex came to Beverly Main Streets after working in development and management at the Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice, LEAP for Education, Trinity Boston Connects, The Boston Foundation and EdVestors.

She earned her Master's Degree at Boston University and her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from Pacific Union College. She also serves on the Board of Healing Abuse Working for Change, a domestic violence prevention organization on the North Shore.

She said she is confident that BMS Community Engagement Manager Becki Greene will be "brilliant, relentless and will continue to be the creative spark that drives our work."

"Beverly Main Streets has big plans —ambitious plans — and they're going to need the same energy, generosity, and passion that you’ve shared so generously over the years," she said, while making a request for donations to help the new and returning staff continue the work that has been forwarded over the past two years.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)