ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO

Topic:

 So The Election Just Happened- Now What?
Speaker: Carl Luna Ph.D.

Carl Luna Ph.D. | Professor at Mesa College, political science; visiting professor at the University of San Diego; Co-Creator/Co-Producer/Host/Director of the Institute for Civil Civic Engagement 
 

   Carl Luna is a full professor of political science in San Diego Mesa College's Accelerated College Program.  Joining the department in 1989, he has also served as a department chair, chair of Mesa College's Chairs' Committee and president of the academic senate.  Dr. Luna has served as a visiting professor at USD since 1999.  In 2014 Association of Community College Trustees recognized him as one of the 5 top community college professors in the country.  

Dr. Luna is also a frequent commentator on politics, giving hundreds of interviews to local, national, and international media including public radio and TV, CBA, NBC, the Associated Press and the BBC and is San Diego Fox5's resident political analyst.  He has written and blogged extensively for the San Diego Union Tribune and San Diego City Beat Magazine and is a contributing author to the anthology of presidential biographies, Public Pillars, Private Lives and a revised volume on the presidency: Imperial Presidents: The Rise of Executive Power from Roosevelt to Obama.  He also wrote Motherland, a novel of Russian political intrigue.

Dr. Luna is co-chair of Restoring Respect, a community initiative promoting greater civility in San Diego dialogue supported by a consortium of academic institutions and community groups.  In 2014 he became the first director of the Institute for Civil Civic Engagement, formed between USD, Mesa College, Miramar College and San Diego City College.  As a minor footnote to history, a brief written by Dr. Luna formed the closing argument presented to the United States Senate by Presidential Counsel Greg Craig in the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton.  

Dr. Luna has his Ph.D. from the American University of Washington D.C. in political science, and his BA from the University of San Diego in political science, history, and philosophy.  

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