Luis Avila

Luis Avila is the President and Founder of Iconico Campaigns, a company that works to build advocacy capacity in organizations around the country. Previously, Luis served as Vice President with 270 Strategies, and before that as National Program Director at Stand for Children, a non-profit grassroots advocacy organization, where he worked with parents to mobilize thousands of voters to protect funding and access to high-quality schools for their children. A longtime community organizer, Luis has held positions including Field Organizer in New Mexico for President Obama’s 2008 campaign and Field Director at Arizona State University’s ADA Parent Education Program. Born in Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico, Luis founded a youth publication in Queretaro at the age of 16 to give students a chance to voice their opinions on social and political issues.