About me
Ivan Luevanos-Elms is the Executive Director of Local Progress and the Local Progress Impact Lab. Ivan is applying his nearly 15 years of experience in municipal government, electoral campaigns and grassroots organizing to helping the more than 1500 elected officials across the country advance racial and economic justice through all levels of local government. Before becoming Executive Director, he served as LP’s Organizing Director, overseeing a multi-state organizing strategy and helping to develop and grow the Progressive Governance Academy in deep collaboration with the State Innovation Exchange and re:power. Prior to that, he served as Director of the Community Engagement Division of the New York City Council where he helped create NYC’s municipal ID card system and expand the city’s participatory budgeting process. He also previously worked at the intersections of immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights for Make the Road NY, and on electoral campaigns at the Working Families Party.
