Ivan Luevanos-Elms is the Executive Director of Local Progress, a national network of local elected officials advancing racial and economic justice through all levels of local government. He is applying his nearly 15 years of experience in electoral work and grassroots organizing to helping the more than 1400 local elected officials across the LP network change what is possible in our localities. 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. He is a proud queer Mexican immigrant who came to the U.S. at age 4 and grew up in Los Angeles, where he still lives with his husband, dogs, and cat.