Luke was raised in Qatar. The first in his family to enter higher education, he completed a master’s in economic history in 2011 at the University of Manchester, UK before working for a United Nations policy watchdog in New York. He later worked for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa, Panama, and then in Colombia provided protective accompaniment for Colombian activists in combat zones with the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
He is currently completing a law degree at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he has worked with Corporate Accountability Lab and founded the Northwestern Student Mental Health Alliance and the Law Students Mental Health National Alliance.