Felipe Luciano

FELIPE LUCIANO is a two-time award winning Emmy recipient, former news anchor and radio personality, poet, speaker, and activist. A native New Yorker raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn, he is a former member of The Last Poets, and a co-founder of the New York chapter of the Young Lords Organization (renamed the Young Lords Party), where he served as Chairman of the New York group. Following his departure from the Party, he went on to produce and host a number of radio programs at WRVR, WBLS and WLIIB; served as news reporter and anchor for WNBC-TV and WCBS-TV; was the host of Good Day New York; and co hosted with Ed Koch the local political affairs show, Street Talk. He worked as the Director of Communications for the City of Newark, and recently earned a master’s degree from Union Theological Seminary. Luciano lecturers at colleges, universities, unions, and community organizations nationwide.