Diana Carolina Montaño Junco

First name
Diana Carolina
Last name
Montaño Junco
Email
[email protected]
Phone number
+57 321 4243810
How do you self-identify or would like to be identified?
Woman
Do you belong to any ethnic minority group of self-identify as an indigenous person?
No
Affiliation, organization, or community
Transforma
Years of professional or activism experience or of knowledge built on specific indigenous expertise
1-5 years
Country of residence
Colombia
Languages
English
Spanish
In which geographic region (and sub-region) does your work mostly focus?
South America
Mitigation
Forestry
Adaptation
Water
Climate technologies
Information and communication technology and digital technologies (AI and ML)
Cross-sectoral enablers
Communication and awareness
Economics and climate finance
Governance and planning (policy, regulatory systems)
Innovation, research, development and demonstration
Cross-cutting approaches
Community-based
Gender
Do you have proven experience in gender and climate change issues?
Yes, my work/ area of expertise mainly focuses on gender and climate change
Mitigation
Forestry
Adaptation
Water
Climate Technologies
Agriculture, forestry, land-use, fisheries
Information and communication technology and digital technologies (AI and ML)
Cross-cutting approaches
Community-based
Gender
Cross-sectoral enablers
Communication and awareness
Economics and climate finance
Governance and planning (policy, regulatory systems)
Innovation, research, development and demonstration
Please provide your short bio reflecting on your academic, professional and practical background

Diana is a bilingual Political Scientist from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, she holds an MSc degree in Sociology from the same university. Between the second semester of 2019 and the second semester of 2020, she was a founder, member, and leader of the Ecofeminism group of the University’s environmental group (MAUA by its acronym in Spanish). She is interested in social research in a broad sense and with an emphasis on socio-environmental issues since several of her professional experiences have been in this area. She has knowledge in research and experience specifically in qualitative type projects, high-quality literature review, and search for documentary information. She has good expertise in NVivo (Software for Qualitative Data Analysis), Gephi (Software for Social Network Analysis ), and knowledge of statistical software for quantitative research (Software for Statistics and Data Science - STATA ). Also, experience in assisting students in writing, argumentative structure, and written communication, after two years of work at the Centro de Español (An Spanish writing center) of Universidad de Los Andes and as a beneficiary of the Francisco Pizano de Brigard scholarship. Her long-term goal is to do a PhD, academic life and working in environmental affairs.

Curriculum vitae
CV link
https://bit.ly/3Vw3tXx
Provide a link to your LinkedIn account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-monta%C3%B1o-387589127/
Are you interested in being contacted for any of the following
Panelist at climate change event
Advisory in technical assistance project
Contributor to research/publication
Interviewed by the media