Miguel Angel Luna

Miguel Angel Luna

Member since March 2021

Born: Cucuta, Colombia

 

Representing

City of Los Angeles

 

Current Met committee appointments:
Chair – Legal and Claims Committee

Member – Equity, Inclusion and Affordability Committee; Executive Committee; Legislation and Communications Committee; Subcommittee on Pure Water Southern California and Regional Conveyance; Ad Hoc Committee on Bay-Delta Negotiations

Professional and community activities:
Miguel Angel Luna is president of Urban Semillas, a Los Angeles-based public relations firm specializing in community outreach and consensus building with a focus on social and environmental justice issues.

 

Over the last 20 years, Luna has worked on several master planned projects, including the Lower LA River Revitalization Plan, LA River Master Plan, Southeast LA Arts Festival and Metro Los Angeles River Path Project.

 

A founding board member of Water Education for Latino Leaders, Luna also serves on the boards of the city of Los Angeles’ Measure O Citizens Oversight Advisory Committee, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Community Nature Connections, and Pacoima Beautiful.

 

Luna emigrated from Colombia to Los Angeles with his mother in the late 1970s, and presently lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles’ historic Filipinotown.