Allex Luna (he/him/el) is the Organizing Director of UNE (United for a New Economy) and UNE Action. Before moving to Colorado, Allex spent a decade as an organizer with local affiliates of the Faith in Action Network: Inland Congregations United for Change in California and Comunidades en Acción y de Fe (CAFE) in New Mexico. In 2017, he became the Lead Organizer for CAFE, taking on program development and implementation, as well as the professional development of organizers, in addition to his community leadership development work.
Allex has organized in partnership with community leaders to divest from programs that harm our communities, like border enforcement, oil, and gas extraction, and over-policing (reclassifying felonies as misdemeanors), and instead invest in public education (improving graduation rates), raising the minimum wage, and creating a paid sick leave program.
Allex grew up in Palm Springs, California, in a working-class, mixed-status home. Alongside his family and members of his community, he organized to end predatory towing policies that targeted low-income and immigrant members of his community – when he was just 15 years old. This campaign inspired Allex to become a community organizer to transform the pain of his community into power.