Luis is the President and CEO of the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation, one of the largest and longest serving foster care non-profits in Arizona. Before assuming non-profit leadership in 2022, Luis was a transfer pricing economist and later, a human capital strategist at Deloitte. Other experiences include fellowships at Meta (fka Facebook) in Silicon Valley and in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C. Luis' professional and personal background allows him to have a profound understanding of the intersectionality of the public, private and independent sectors of our society. Born in a one-room adobe home in Chihuahua, Mexico, Luis was brought by his parents to the United States when he was approximately 8 years of age. Today he still bears a scar that reminds him of the journey he undertook with his family across the Arizona-Sonora Desert in search of the American Dream. For Luis, getting a shot at the American Dream meant losing his family-- he entered Arizona’s foster care system as a teenager after years of instability, homelessness, and abandonment. Notwithstanding the economic and familial hardships, Luis became a first-generation high school graduate and would go on to also become a first-generation college student. Today, Luis has two undergraduate business degrees from Arizona State University, where he also authored an award-winning thesis on U.S. Immigration Law. Luis was awarded a Rackham Merit Fellowship by the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where he earned his master’s in public policy. Recently, Luis was admitted to Harvard and started executive education focused on leading and transforming the social sector. 

Most importantly, Luis is happily married to his better half, Nataly, and his desire to make the world a better place is inspired by his two boys, Mateo (5-years) and Sebastian (2-years).