Chione Lucina Muñoz Flegal
Executive Director
Chione Lucina Muñoz Flegal is the Executive Director of Housing California. With deep expertise on issues of infrastructure, land use, housing, and environmental policy, she works to promote social, economic, and environmental equity through policy change. Chione has over 20 years of experience building coalitions and leading policy campaigns to improve outcomes for low-income communities and communities of color in California.
Prior to joining Housing California, Chione was a managing director at PolicyLink, where she led a portfolio of initiatives focused on water, climate, housing, transportation, and equitable fiscal policy in California and beyond. Her work has strengthened California’s housing and equity movements, has contributed to significant statewide policy wins, and has resulted in new and expanded public investments in housing and infrastructure.
Chione has previously worked at Latino Issues Forum where she directed the organization’s environmental health and justice work. She has worked as a consultant for organizations in the United States and abroad including CARE International and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Chione has served on the Board of Directors at several other state and national organizations including Housing CA, TransForm, the California EDGE Coalition, and Emerald Cities. She has been a member of the climate justice working group for the California Natural Resources Agency and the AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee for the Air Resources Board.
She holds a master’s degree in city planning with a focus on housing and community development and has a BS in environmental science, policy, and management from the University of California, Berkeley.
Please direct guest speaker requests, event invitations, meeting requests, correspondence related to philanthropic fundraising and sustainable development, as well as messages intended for Chione’s general inbox, to Jade Chin, jchin@housingca.org.
Please direct press inquiries to Necole Norris, housingca@spitfirestrategies.com.