Luke has BA in Linguistics from Pomona College. He is a native Austinite and grandson of a Texas-German speaker, and he is interested in phonology, heritage languages and dialects, and education. He returned to Austin from a Fulbright teaching scholarship in Nepal in 2011 and is the Language Coordinator at the Multicultural Refugee Coalition, where he helps with education and training programs for refugees who have settled in Austin. He also plays New Orleans-style blues piano.