Title: Daniella Montemarano

Daniella Montemarano is a second-year Master of Science in Foreign Service candidate studying international conflict resolution and multitrack diplomacy under the program’s Global Politics and Security concentration. She holds a Huffington Graduate Fellowship at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, where she researches Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) operations in the Horn of Africa and the Lake Chad Basin.
A trained mediator since the age of 15, Daniella specializes in transitional justice, the Rule of Law, and gender, peace and security. Prior to joining MSFS, Daniella led peace-building projects in West and Southern Africa and the United States, addressing issues like women’s political participation in rural Cameroon and post-conflict reconciliation within the Liberian diaspora community. Daniella served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana (2012-15) and holds an honors B.A. in History from New York University.
During her #SummerSFS, Daniella worked at the Asian International Justice Initiative in Cambodia. While in Phnom Penh, she monitored Case 002/02 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and helped conduct a study on the impact of the courts on transitional justice and the Rule of Law in post-genocide Cambodia. Her work also included developing human rights legal education curricula and supporting the Center’s community outreach programs.