Diana Chaman Salas serves as Director of Climate and Resiliency for Hennepin County, Minnesota, where she is in charge with fostering climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts with an equity lens. Prior to that, she served as a consultant for the Global Food Banking Network and worked as a principal analyst for Second Harvest Heartland, where she designed a strategy to reduce child hunger in Minnesota’s metro area.
Diana has a master’s in public administration from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in Comparative Politics. She co-developed the Peruvian National Strategy for Family Farming and Food Security. Diana has been a speaker at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, and COP20, The No More Food to Waste Conference in the Hague, the UN’s Woman of the Mountain Conference, and the World Bank 2015 Annual Meeting.