Luis Marcos

Luis Marcos belongs to the Q'anjob'al Maya Nation and serves as the Co-Founder and CEO of Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim, Co-Founder of the Maya Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and Ambassador to the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska appointed by the Confederated Government of the Akateko, Chuj, and Qanjobal Maya Nation. Luis relocated to the United States in 1989 during the genocide committed against the Maya Nation by the State of Guatemala. Since then, Luis has been involved in community organizing, preserving Maya culture, and strategically advancing Maya self-determination and self-government.

Luis' work and the work of the Q'anjob'al Maya Nation in Omaha and Q'ajob'al Maya Territory is to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by following an evidence-based process called Native Nations Rebuilding (NNR). NNR is informed by more than 30 years of research by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) and the Native Nations Institute (NNI) of the University of Arizona on sustainable economic development.