Nanci Luna Jiménez is recognized regionally, nationally, and
internationally for her highly effective and insightful training,
inclusive facilitation, and dynamic speaking with groups of
diverse ages, industries, and cultural backgrounds. She
founded Luna Jiménez Institute for Social Transformation
(LJIST) in 1994 to design and deliver programs to encourage
individuals in their process of personal transformation, releasing
individual initiative to create a more just and equitable
workplace and world.
Nanci’s signature approach to social justice and healing
continues the legacy of work that Dr. Erica Sherover-Marcuse,
who coined the term “unlearning racism,” began and Lillian
Roybal Rose, M.Ed., recognized Cross-Cultural Communication
specialist, continued. This process empowers participants to take pride in their own heritage as a means
of building alliances with others. Nanci expertly combines these teachings with methodologies developed
by the Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA), an international organization that provides training in
participatory group facilitation processes for sustained organizational and social change. A Certified
Professional Facilitator© since 2006, Nanci facilitates individuals and groups to look freshly at where they
might be stuck while supporting them to make transformational changes they envision through: personal
healing, cross cultural communication, group consensus, organization inclusion, and short and long term
planning and implementation.
In 2016 Nanci was a Fellow in the Presidio Institute’s Cross Sector Leadership Program. In 2006 she was
awared a National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) Fellowship where she completed the Executive
Leadership Program through the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Center
for Creative Leadership in Brussels, Belgium.
Of Puerto Rican and Chicana heritage, Nanci was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in Detroit and Tucson,
AZ. Nanci thrives doing Bomba—an Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drum tradition—traveling, weight lifting,
training for half marathons and practicing yoga—on and off the mat.