Leticia Gomez Franco

Executive Director

Leticia Gomez Franco (she/her/hers) is the Executive Director of the Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, CA.  Her work is rooted in the intersection of culture, representation and social justice, all values that play a role in her position at BACC where she is leading the 49 year old organization, through a transformative shift into a radically inclusive art conservation nonprofit. 

She previously served as Senior Arts and Culture Funding Manager for the City of San Diego where she led the City’s arts and culture funding program, oversaw the development and implementation of professional development, technical assistance and capacity building to incubate and build capacity of artists and arts and culture organizations and most notably, led the departments diversity, equity and inclusion work towards a more just and equitable framework for the distribution of City funding. Before that, Gomez Franco served as Director of Programs for the New Americans Museum where she supported the grand reopening of the immigrant narratives based institution and led curatorial efforts. Her career in the arts began as Exhibitions Director for Casa Familiar’s The Front, where she oversaw development and program management for multiple art spaces as well as headed a rigorous and culturally conscious exhibition calendar with a commitment to nourishing the cultural identity of the San Diego/Tijuana border region. 

Leticia is a first-generation college graduate born in the U.S. to immigrant parents from Tepatitlan Jalisco, Mexico and raised in Pico Union/South Central L.A. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in English and Chicana/o Studies and a Master of Arts in Curatorial Theory from San Diego State University's Liberal Arts & Sciences Program. She is also a two-time fellow of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC). Leticia remains steadfast in her commitment to use her experience in arts administration and community activism to increase access to the arts for all.
 

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