Ana
Montañez
Political scientist and data analyst focused on education, digital inclusion, and equity, using rigorous evidence to improve how programs serve the most vulnerable.
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Political scientist and data analyst focused on education, digital inclusion, and equity, using rigorous evidence to improve how programs serve the most vulnerable.
I'm a political scientist and data analyst with an MPA in Technology Policy and Innovation from Columbia University, and a minor in Data Science for Public Policy. My career spans government, nonprofits, and academia across Latin America and the United States, always focused on using rigorous evidence to improve how programs serve the most vulnerable.
As a Research Fellow at Columbia Journalism School, I'm building open-source, modular AI pipelines. My current project builds an AI agent to read and extract insights from NYC public budget data for non-expert audiences.
I have deep experience designing Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) systems at scale, from AI chatbots reaching 100,000+ women across Latin America to national education databases for UNESCO and OECD assessments.
Built a multi-dimensional gentrification index from ACS tract-level data, merged with school-level datasets, and ran regressions to assess impacts on demographics, poverty rates, and ELA/math performance across New York City.
Developed a 30+ metric evaluation framework for SRH chatbots serving girls in the Global South, in partnership with Girl Effect. Applied to five case studies to assess safety, accuracy, and user experience.
Preliminary analysis of how subway station access correlates with demographic and socioeconomic patterns across NYC neighborhoods, examining transit equity and spatial inequality.
Open-source AI agent that ingests and parses NYC budget documents, extracts key fiscal insights, and surfaces plain-language summaries, making public finance legible, accessible and transparent for non-expert audiences.
Text analysis and sentiment study of how housing is discussed in public discourse and media, surfacing the gap between lived experience and policy narratives around New York's housing crisis.
Open to research roles, evaluation consultancies, and full-time positions at multilateral organizations and development institutions. Based in New York City, available globally.