She is a Black feminist and a healthcare worker. She is 32 years old, born in Santos, on the coast of the state of São Paulo, and is a psychologist, graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP), where she specialized in Collective Health and Primary Care, working in Basic Health Units in the West Zone of São Paulo. At the university, Luana was an active part of the struggle that achieved the adoption of ethnic-racial and social quotas at USP. Luana is active in Rede Emancipa, a national popular education social movement that, in the outskirts of São Paulo, organizes dozens of free pre-university preparatory courses that enable thousands of public school students to access university. She accepted the challenge of being a spokesperson for the anti-racist, feminist, antifascist struggles, for the peripheries, for LGBTQIA+ people, and in defense of public education and the Unified Health System (SUS), which is comprehensive, free, and universal. She was elected city councilor by PSOL in São Paulo in 2020 with 37,550 votes and re-elected in 2024 with 83,262 votes.