Community Planner

Luke Talavera is a Community Planner at the McLean County Regional Planning Commission. Born and raised in the Philippines, he moved to Champaign, Illinois in 2020. He earned his Master of Urban Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2024, where he concentrated on Transportation Planning & Local and Regional Economic Development. He also earned his B.A. in Sociology from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2018.

He did his summer internship with MCRPC in 2023. Before moving to the US, Luke worked at CIFAL Philippines as a Junior Project Associate for more than 2 years, doing migration research and liaison work.