Staff and Board

USOC Staff

Dana Brown Email

Executive Director

Dana Brown comes to USOC with 10 years' experience with US policy towards Latin America. She is a former Director of the Committee on US/Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) and current Amnesty International USA Colombia Country Specialist. She also has on the ground experience in Colombia as a Human Rights Accompanier with Peace Brigades International (PBI), and now serves on the Advisory Board of PBI USA. She holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Cornell University and a Masters in International Relations and Peace Studies from the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina where she was a Rotary World Peace Fellow. She is thrilled to be at USOC and to have the opportunity to work with such distinguished partners in order to promote human rights and sustainable peace in Colombia

Diana Arango Email

Program Director

Diana has a bachelor degree in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; she also holds a masters degree in Area Studies (Comparative American Studies) from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. Diana has focused her research on coca cultivation in Colombia and in particular on alternative development programs. Diana’s masters dissertation “Security, Development and International Cooperation: the Colombian Case” focused on the changes of the assistance programs for development after the 9/11 attacks. Prior to working with the US Office on Colombia, Diana interned for Drug Policy Alliance in New York, and coordinated schools of human rights and political system for young men and women of Ciudad Bolivar in Bogotá.

2008 Board of Directors

• Gustavo Torres / CASA de Maryland, Inc.
• Tara Carr-Lemke / Share Foundation
• Robert Guitteau, Jr.
• Chloe Schwabe / National Council of Churches
• Charlie Roberts / Colombia Human Rights Committee
• Catalina Rojas / [ Women Thrive Worldwide]
• Adam Isacson / [ Washington Office on Latin America]

Website Staff

Tony Figoli Email

Tony Figoli serves as the Art Director at Oregon Design Collective--a company he founded in 2004. He holds a BA, with a Fine Art concentration, from Bard College. Since completing his studies in 1993, Tony has worked in the graphic design business focusing on print and web design, as well as programming and web management. In previous lives, he was a taxi driver, house painter, shingler, musician, dishwasher, roofer, sign maker, newspaperman, and typesetter. His many skills are now put to use in the design of beautiful and accessible web-sites for various local and national non-profits, policy organizations and artist collectives. Send Tony an email for a consultation about how to improve your organization's website.

The U.S. Office on Colombia is an independent non-profit organization, not affiliated with any political party, that seeks to educate U.S. policymakers, the media and the U.S. public about the impact of U.S. policy on Colombia.