Luis Daniel Muñoz

Luis Daniel Muñoz graduated from Central Falls High School. Muñoz earned a bachelor's degree from Rhode Island College in 2008 and an M.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2014. His career experience includes working in consulting. He has been affiliated with the State of Rhode Island Equity Council.[1][2]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am Dr. Luis Daniel Muñoz, a medical doctor, consultant, technology developer and community advocate raised in Central Falls, RI. I was raised by a single mother who fought to keep her five children fed and housed. I graduated from Central Falls High School, Rhode Island College and UConn School of Medicine. I served on Rhode Island’s Equity Council, helped coordinate support services, and organize vaccine access during COVID-19. I have also served as an advocate for civil-rights and education. I twice ran for governor with an aim to implement programmatic solutions across the state that would have helped to strengthen healthcare, education, and social programs.

I am running for Senate because I know what delay costs: the prescription left unfilled, the family priced out of its home and the community told to wait while preventable harm deepens. As the cost-of-living crisis deepens and international conflicts worsen, it is time to send a new fighter to Washington. Rhode Islanders deserve leadership that feels their urgency and acts on it.

Stop the genocide. Fund our infrastructure, health care, schools and social programs.

This is how we build better tomorrows.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Care people can afford. Housing people can keep. Work that pays. Families do not experience the economy as GDP or procedural accomplishments. They experience it as the rent due, a prescription left unfilled, a paycheck stretched and time lost to systems designed around profit. I will fight for Medicare for All, permanently affordable housing, worker power, lower drug and utility costs, universal child care and public investment that creates measurable public value. Economic policy has failed when the economy expands but working people cannot afford to live inside it.Public office is not private property, and tenure is not a title deed. Rhode Island deserves a senator willing to confront insurers, corporate landlords, private equity, monopolies, weapons contractors and political institutions that have normalized delay. My campaign is built with people, not above them. Respect for public service does not require surrender to the status quo. Experience should strengthen accountability, not create immunity from it. I will fight to end the silent 60-vote veto and require senators to defend obstruction in public.Peace rooted in human dignity. Real security begins with modernized and resilient grids, secure hospital systems, water systems, cybersecurity infrastructure, domestic manufacturing, a workforce empowered with free education and training and solutions-based diplomacy, not performative politics or blank checks for war. I will oppose unauthorized hostilities, needless wars, military aid and arms transfers to Israel, any successor to the 2016 MOU that commits future U.S. military support, and a foreign policy that applies one standard to adversaries and another to allies. Military force must be a last resort, limited to lawful self-defense or a narrow mission authorized by Congress.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

As a medical doctor, consultant, and community organizer, I am passionate about policies that enable people to live healthy, dignified lives. That includes Medicare for All, primary and mental health care, reproductive freedom, maternal health, housing, wages and worker power, education, climate resilience, grid modernization, cybersecurity, digital labor rights, antitrust, abolishing ICE, humanitarian foreign policy, stopping the genocide, and restoring full Narragansett sovereignty for their tribal lands in RI. These are not separate silos. They are the social infrastructure of a society. I care about whether policy prevents harm, measures results and gives people power over the systems shaping their lives.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Luis Daniel Muñoz is a community organizer, medical doctor, husband, and father. He grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and is an alumnus of Rhode Island College, and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He has served as a member of Rhode Island's Equity Council, where he has demonstrated an unyielding commitment to fight for real progress.

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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Healthcare is a human rightPoverty is the manifestation of injusticeOpportunity must be accessible to all

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Healthcare, Education, Local Economies, Housing (Affordable and Low Income), Criminal Justice Reform. #HumanRights and #Equity.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Honesty, integrity, humility, responsiveness, empathy, compassion, and a lens of equity.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

To promote a process that is inclusive of the opinions of the communities that the office holder is serving.