Board Service and Preservation: Debby Gomulka’s Community Leadership
Alongside client work, Debby Gomulka has built a record of service to cultural and preservation organizations. According to a 2025 CEOWORLD profile, she has served on the boards of the Bellamy Mansion Museum and Preservation North Carolina.
Her personal website adds further detail, listing her as chairman of the board at the Bellamy Mansion Museum, vice president of the Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, and a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Interior Designers from 2022 to 2025.
The pattern is consistent across her biography. She sits on boards tied to historic buildings, performing arts, and design, and her professional life includes teaching, an international ambassador role, and ongoing client projects.
These roles connect closely to her professional focus. A designer who specializes in historic preservation benefits from understanding how museums, theaters, and heritage groups sustain old buildings over time, and her board service puts that knowledge into practice.
Her firm, Provenance Lee Interiors, describes her as a philanthropist as well as a designer, and its process begins with learning about each client’s philanthropic causes. That interest in giving back appears to inform both her volunteer work and her interior design approach.
Her website describes the combination as strategic planning and community leadership, two skills she lists alongside historic preservation and custom textiles.
For prospective clients, this record offers reassurance. A designer who invests time in museums, arts venues, and professional bodies is likely to be rooted in the places she works, and that local knowledge can matter when a project involves older buildings or community landmarks. Service of this kind can strengthen a design practice, because it keeps a designer connected to the audiences, institutions, and neighborhoods that shape the work.
Community leadership is also one of the specialties she lists online. More about her involvement is available through her LinkedIn profile, where her professional history is set out in detail.