Luis De La Cruz

Luis De La Cruz is the President and CEO of the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation, one of the largest and longest-serving foster care-only non-profits in Arizona. Before assuming non-profit leadership in 2022, Luis spent most of his professional career at Deloitte. Other experiences include fellowships at Meta (fka Facebook) in Silicon Valley and in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C.

Luis’ professional and personal background allows him to have a profound understanding of the intersectionality of the public, private and independent sectors of our society. Luis aged out from the Arizona foster care system and was an independent adult by the age of 18. With the help of the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation Scholarship Program, Luis would go on to become a first-generation college student.

Today, Luis has two undergraduate business degrees from Arizona State University, where he also authored an award-winning thesis on U.S. Immigration Law. Luis earned his master’s in public policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Finally, Luis is also pursuing executive education at Harvard focused on leading and transforming the social sector.

Luis takes pride in the work and the people that are a part of the AFFCF mission and views the opportunity to lead AFFCF a privilege.