Patricia Luna

Patricia Luna (she/her) is Senior Director of Lending and Investments for the Southeast. She is responsible for loan originations and strategy, including cultivating client relationships, loan structuring and underwriting, credit analysis, and management of the closing process. Patricia began her commercial real estate career as an attorney representing lenders making CMBS loans. She represented banks and other lenders making commercial real estate and asset backed loans for many years, first at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Charlotte, and later at Jones Day and Kutak Rock in Atlanta. After working in Wells Fargo’s LIHTC lending line of business, she gained expertise in Low Income Housing Tax Credit and New Markets Tax Credit transactions.

Patricia pivoted to the nonprofit space in April 2020, joining LISC to lead the Atlanta office’s lending program, and to oversee its programmatic work enabling greater access to capital for entrepreneurs of color. She viewed the transition to a CDFI as an opportunity to do more meaningful work in the city that has become home. After LISC, she continued the work in her beloved Atlanta at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, where she oversaw deployment of its GoATL and TogetherATL affordable housing funds.

Patricia attended the University of Georgia and the University of Texas School of Law. She is passionate about affordable housing and equitable community development and believes her work can help change the face of Atlanta and beyond. She is a board member of Project Community Connections, Inc., and a member of the Atlanta Women’s Affordable Housing Network. She is also a very active member of the Atlanta chapter of Urban Land Institute, serving on the TAPs committee, as an UrbanPlan facilitator, and in a variety of leadership roles for its Center for Leadership program.