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Linda Lucero
Linda Lucero has a life-long commitment to arts, culture and community. She is a former curator of performing arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she curated the Community Partnerships Program and the Celebration of Family Series. In her nine years at YBCA, she created successful artist residencies with local, national and international artists including hip-hop theater artists Danny Hoch, Sarah Jones, Will Power, and Jonzi D; playwrights/performers Anne Galjour, David Cale, Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash, Sean San José, Word for Word Theater Company, Brenda Wong Aoki; and composers Omar Sosa, Jennifer Higdon, and Rebeca Mauléon.
At YBCA, Ms. Lucero worked alongside Mario Garcia Durham during the creation of the program that became Yerba Buena Arts & Events/Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. She curated Yerba Buena Gardens 10th Anniversary Celebration in 2003 and has been a key figure in the development of the annual Festival.
Previously, Ms. Lucero was Executive Director of La Raza Graphics Center and Grants Director of Vanguard Foundation. She has been an advisor to The San Francisco Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, The California Arts Council, The Marin Community Foundation, The Paul Robeson Fund for Film and Video, and UC Santa Barbara's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. Ms. Lucero is a founding board member of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture.
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