Diana Leal

Diana Leal

Diana Leal was born in Bogotá Colombia, where she studied Journalism and Communications. She has also studied Philosophy and Literature in New York. She worked as a Television Reporter for several national television news channels, and worked as a Communications Consultant for a United Nations program in Colombia where she developed and managed educational and communications strategies to support prevention in drug production in the Amazon forest, and produced media campaigns aimed to improve the quality of life of farmers and indigenous communities affected by the production of illegal crops.

She produced documentaries and T.V special programs about social and political issues: the reason why the peasants have been forced to plant Coca, and why the indigenous people of Guambia have been forced to plant poppy; the problem of the guerrillas in Colombia, and the training of hired assassins called “Jails: schools of crime;” and programs about alcohol and violence, among others.

In 2000 she moved to Seattle where she worked as a reporter for El Mundo newspaper and won two national prices with her reports. She founded Medialuna Agency where she currently works as a designer and copywriter, developing advertising and creating campaigns for companies that want to reach the Hispanic Community. Diana continues writing articles as a freelancer and is working on some fiction short stories.