Maggie Luna is a Policy Analyst and the Community Outreach Coordinator at the Texas Center for Justice and Equity, having joined the organization in early 2020 as a Hogg Foundation Peer Policy Fellow. In her role, Maggie is focused on creating advocacy opportunities for system-impacted Texans. Her passion for justice policy is fueled by her own lived experience with system involvement and substance use, including incarceration at state and county levels in Texas. Just one year after her release from prison, Maggie began advocating for a host of women’s dignity bills and, throughout Texas’s 2019 legislative session, she encouraged lawmakers to support reforms including conditions of confinement. A graduate of the Smart Justice Speakers Bureau at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Maggie coordinates the Statewide Leadership Council, which TCJE launched to elevate the voices of system-impacted people in local and state policy reform. Maggie also holds a Re-Entry Peer Specialist Certification.
To contact Maggie, please email MLuna@TexasCJE.org.