Luanna Peterson

ABOUT LUANNA PETERSON

Luanna Peterson is a curriculum architect, narrative strategist, and movement-based consultant working at the intersection of education, cultural strategy, and systems change. She supports organizations, schools, publishers, coalitions, and community-rooted initiatives in translating vision into aligned programs, partnerships, publications, and practices.

Her work is guided by a central question: What shapes what we believe is possible?

Through the Deep Sighting Framework, Luanna helps communities look beneath surface-level challenges to understand the stories, assumptions, relationships, and structures shaping their reality. This process supports groups in moving from insight to aligned action across vision, values, strategy, curriculum, evaluation, and implementation.

Her practice integrates education, cultural strategy, systems thinking, and community storytelling. She specializes in strengthening alignment between what organizations say they value and how those values are expressed through structures, relationships, and practice.

Over the past decade, she has designed and led multi-state initiatives, built cross-sector partnerships, developed leadership programs serving thousands of participants, and created evaluation and learning systems across education and community-based programs.

She is the co-founder of Weaving Our Stories, a Hawaiʻi-rooted abolitionist storytelling initiative focused on belonging, memory, healing, and collective transformation. In 2024, the initiative published Return to Belonging through Daraja Press, a global anthology she co-edited featuring BIPOC writers from around the world.

Her background includes curriculum development, program evaluation, leadership design, culturally responsive STEM education, and social justice-centered arts and storytelling. Across this work, she remains committed to one practice: helping communities connect meaning with action and build structures capable of carrying the futures they imagine.

Luanna holds a B.A. in Global Studies and Communications and an M.A. in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community with an emphasis on Ecological Agriculture.

She is available for consulting, curriculum design, narrative strategy, facilitation, coalition alignment, and learning and evaluation design.

For inquiries or partnership conversations: luanna.peterson808@gmail.com