She holds the position of academic dean at the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico where she heads the Doctor of Ministry program.
She is recognized as having actively contributed to the field of Latina feminist theology, an unusual achievement for a Black Puerto Rican woman.
From an early age, she attended the local Pentecostal church, Iglesia Defensores de la Febecame, which led to her later interest in theology.
[1] After schooling in the Black communities of Loíza and Canóvanas, Luvis studied biology at the University of Puerto Rico, graduating in 1980.
[1][2] Her dissertation was titled Sewing a New Cloth: A Proposal for a Pentecostal Ecclesiology Fashioned as a Community Gifted by the Spirit with the Marks of the Church from a Latina Perspective.
[2] Her first experience in working as a teacher began in 2003 when as a second year doctoral student, she was invited by the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico to teach a summer course on feminist theologies.
[1] Luvis Núñez's doctoral thesis Sewing a New Cloth: A Proposal for a Pentecostal Ecclesiology Fashioned as a Community Gifted by the Spirit with the Marks of the Church from a Latina Perspective (2009) presents a feminist approach to Puerto Rican Pentecostalism, criticizing the lack of attention Euro-American theologians have paid to Afro-Caribbean culture.
Here she suggests that the economic crisis in Puerto Rico provides an opportunity for the Church to explore its true identity in more robust terms.