Maria Antonia Montes
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Maria Antonia (Tonis) Montes is currently a senior program officer for the nonviolent action program at USIP. Montes leads USIP’s programming on nonviolent collective action and social movements for peace.
In her current role, Montes implements USIP's Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding (SNAP) training program in Latin America, as well as its participatory action research in Colombia. Montes has worked with USIP’s regional teams on comparative peace processes, process design, implementation, and mechanisms for the inclusion of women, religious actors and youth in peace processes.
Prior to her time at USIP, Montes taught English at Universidad Minuto de Dios in Bogotá, Colombia.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and Latin American studies from Wake Forest University and has an advanced degree in conflict resolution and peacebuilding from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.