Luanna Peterson

About Luanna Peterson

Luanna Peterson is a curriculum architect, narrative strategist, and movement-based consultant who helps organizations, schools, publishers, coalitions, and community-rooted initiatives translate vision into aligned programs, partnerships, publications, and systems of practice.

Her work is guided by a simple but powerful 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. Her work supports groups in moving from hidden truth to aligned action by connecting vision, values, strategy, curriculum, evaluation, and implementation.

Luanna's practice sits at the intersection of education, cultural strategy, systems change, and community storytelling. She specializes in helping organizations strengthen alignment between what they say they value and the structures, relationships, measures, and practices that guide their work.

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

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

Her background includes community intervention design, program evaluation, culturally responsive STEM education, curriculum development, leadership development, and social justice-centered arts and storytelling. Across these fields, she has remained committed to one central practice: helping communities connect analysis with action and build structures capable of carrying the futures they hope to create.

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

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

For inquiries or partnership conversations:

luanna.peterson808@gmail.com