Luce Guillen-Givins was born in Yakima, WA, in 1984.  At age 8, she moved to Tucson, AZ with her family. She is the oldest child–followed by 2 younger brothers–of a librarian from Seattle and a gardener from Northern Mexico.

She began her political work at age 15, joining a Tucson-based immigrant and border rights group.  As her politics developed, she expanded her focus to include other issues of globalization, capitalism and empire, and found that anarchist organizing methods best suited her desire for anti-oppression struggle.

Luce moved to Minnesota to attend Macalester College in late summer 2002, where she studied for two years before moving on to focus her energy on life and political organizing outside of the student context.

Luce was one of the founding members of the Jack Pine Community Center–open from spring 2006 through spring 2008–which provided radical, family-friendly, free space for political and community events, as well as staffed drop-in hours and other services.  In addition to organizing as part of the RNC Welcoming Committee, Luce has spent much of the past couple years working with EWOK! (Earth Warriors are OK!), a Twin Cities-based eco-prisoner support group.

Post-RNC, Luce is doing arrestee and prisoner support, working food service, and hoping for a time when her contributions to the struggle are no longer constrained by the legal process.