Danielle Galván Gomez is a third-generation Mexican-American born and raised in Pasadena, California. She is also a proud first-generation college graduate who attended the Rhode Island School of Design, studying art history and painting, and Brown University, where she graduated with a degree in comparative literature. A highlight from her college days includes her research contributions to one of the first-ever databases cataloging violence against Mexican-Americans by the Texas Rangers during the years 1900-1930. Danielle is currently attending the University of Washington's iSchool to earn her Master’s in Library and Information Science degree (MLIS). She hopes to innovate the use of research, data, and archives to document the histories of communities of color and tell these stories through accessible art and archival exhibitions and projects.

Danielle is a visual artist, writer, and cultural worker with experience in many Los Angeles County-based arts organizations, including museums, community art centers, and artist studios, and on a variety of projects, including cataloging and digitizing archives, art exhibition curation and planning, grants administration, and public programming. Danielle is passionate about contemporary art, youth advocacy, and community building. She is a former Museum of Contemporary Art Apprentice, Getty Multicultural Intern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Fellow, Arts Associate at the Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Youth Advisory Council member at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture's Arts Ed Collective and the Snap Foundation. She currently works at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as a registrar, helping to manage and grow the Civic Art Collection, where she hopes to help drive an equitable future where public histories, archives, and art collections are maintained, accessible, and used to preserve and advocate for the communities to whom we belong, represent, and serve. Outside of work, you can find Danielle listening to live music or poetry readings, out hiking with her dog Charlie, or helping her dad restore classic cars.