Member
Cultural Heritage Commission
Commissioner Dominguez is a historian and postdoctoral fellow with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. In her public-facing work, she specializes in co-creating culturally relevant partnerships and projects in California and the West. She has previously worked with San Francisco Heritage, the Los Angeles Conservancy, and the National Park Service. She is a co-founder of Latinos in Heritage Conservation and has served on the Board of Trustees of the California Preservation Foundation and as a member of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Civic Memory Working Group. Dr. Dominguez has published widely in academic and public humanities settings. Her award-winning dissertation (2023) studied the historical power of repair and cultural memory in Los Angeles from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
