Margarita Luna joined The California Endowment in June 2007. She has served TCE in a variety of capacities; as a Program Associate in the Health Access Goal Team, Program Manager of the 10-year Building Healthy Communities Initiative in the Eastern Coachella Valley, and Senior Program Manager in the South Region leading Education Justice investments and the Inland Empire portfolio.
Recently, Margarita was promoted to Interim Managing Director for the South Region and Health Systems Teams. In the South Region, Margarita is tasked with overseeing TCE’s investments across the southernmost 5-county region in California, advancing health and racial justice across intersectional system areas achieved via power building toward policy/advocacy and systems change. She also manages a statewide Health Systems-focused grant portfolio dedicated to transforming health-related systems so that they are community centered and driven.
Margarita also served as Chair of the Inland Empire Funders Alliance, organizing funders and transforming philanthropy and its impact on local movement building through collective efforts to advance equity, advocacy and systemic change in the San Bernardino and Riverside county region.
