Lisa Sherman Luna is executive director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC). She joined the coalition in October 2015 and served as policy director for nearly five years before stepping into the role of executive director in 2020. Sherman Luna is also the executive director of TIRRC's political arm, TIRRC Votes.

Sherman Luna has developed a track record of success in winning policy victories through research and analysis, strategic communications, lobbying, and working with colleagues across programs to develop and mobilize community leaders to lead campaigns. Under her leadership at TIRRC, the organization has passed its first pro-immigrant law in the state legislature, secured its first major state and local government grant to expand services to immigrant communities, and ended a rent-a-bed agreement with ICE and a local jail. Sherman Luna also represents TIRRC on the executive committee of the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM).

Prior to joining TIRRC, Sherman Luna advocated on behalf of children in armed conflict at the UN Security Council and was a researcher at Amnesty International on human rights violations in West Africa. She holds a master’s degree in conflict, security, and development from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and is fluent in Spanish and English.