Dianne Francis-Salva is a Park graduate fellow in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. She also teaches art to middle and high school students at the Alternative Community School in Ithaca. She received her B.A., with a concentration in studio art, from Wells College.

Francis-Salva's work has been exhibited at the String Room Gallery at Wells College, the Lincoln Gallery and the Phoenix Art Gallery in Auburn, the Skaneateles Art Festival, and the Clinton House Artspace in Ithaca.