Elaine Torres
Director, Community & Strategic Partnerships | CBS4
Elaine Torres is the Director of Community & Strategic Partnerships at CBS4, KCNC – TV. She oversees the station’s community and strategic partnerships, station initiatives and special events. She also oversees station sponsorships, charitable giving, and community outreach for CBS4.
Elaine serves on several community boards and committees. She’s the Chair of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Board of Trustees, Chair of the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Board of Directors, serves on the Denver Zoo’s Leadership Council, the Denver Art Museum’s Marketing & Strategic Alliance Committee and the Colorado Non-Profit Association’s Leadership Advisory Committee. She recently served on the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross Board of Directors, the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) Board of Directors, and the Women’s Foundation of Colorado Board of Trustees. Elaine is also a member of the International Women’s Forum of Colorado.
Elaine was one of 20 women selected from across the country to participate in the National Hispana Leadership Institute’s 1999 leadership program. This program included intensive training in San Juan Bautista, California; the JFK School of Government at Harvard University; the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina; and the Hispanic Congressional Caucus in Washington, D.C. Elaine is a graduate of the 2001 Leadership Denver Program and in 2009 was named a “Woman of Distinction” through the Girl Scouts of Colorado. In 2018, Elaine received the inaugural Latinas LEAD Influencer Award from the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado. And in 2021, Elaine was named a Latinas of Influence through Hispanic Lifestyle.
In 1999, Elaine completed her master’s degree in applied communications, with an emphasis in Marketing and Public Relations, from the University of Denver. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993.
