He received his J.D., cum laude, from Roger Williams School of Law. Luis worked as a Refugee Status Determination Expert for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Dominican Republic and as an Immigration Attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona. In 2014, he was selected as part of the inaugural class of Immigrant Justice Corps Fellows in New York and was placed at the Bronx Defenders where he represented detained people in immigration and federal courts. More recently. he was a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.