Francesca Marie Gallucci

About Fran

I am a NYC native who moved to Utah in 2020 after 13 years in Baltimore Md. After a long ("storied") career in finance and two years in a Utah FinTech startup, I focus now on investing in people, food and the foundational infrastructure to build regenerative systems needed for our collective future. I care about how and where  people live and the social determinants of health.

I founded DinnerWithFran in 2019, as a series of curated community dinner parties. I believe in the simple yet profound power of sharing a meal, and its ability to ignite strong and sustainable networks for social justice. I strive to create tables and feasts with intentional economic choices, all with the goal of giving everyone a seat and enough to eat. This community approach holds me accountable to creating the world I want to live in and to share and learn from others.

I get things wrong, I learn from failure, I get embarrassed, I try again, I am anti-fragile. After a hard cry and hot cup of coffee I always figure out a next step. I don't have a personal roadmap, checklist or to-do list. I navigate from my compass (gut+heart) and learn something from every story. Not everybody likes me and that is ok, now.

I am a proud product of the New York City public school system. I am creating my work/ life so that I can  support entrepreneurs building fairer food systems while I reimagine community led financing.  I learned more from serving on the Board of the Food Justice Coalition in Utah and The Creative Alliance in Baltimore than I did in graduate school. I find mantras for courage in music, confidence comes way after courage, I write on my mirrors to remember to breath and be nice to myself, I get lost in art museums to think and in 2023 I made peace with long drives. 

You've got this one life.
Do the scary thing.
See what's possible.
Put it all on the table.
Let yourself smile and scream the whole way through.
-Cory Muscara