{"id":1305,"date":"2021-08-11T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/?post_type=team&#038;p=1305"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:50:01","slug":"tanya-amaya","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/team\/tanya-amaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Amaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Tanya is an environmental engineer whose background and passion are focused on creating solutions for sustainable development. Her engineering studies, along with her master\u2019s degree in geo-environmental technologies from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and her specialty in strategic planning from The Polytechnic University of Valencia, opened the door for her to work with diverse institutions such as the National Water and Sanitation Institute and the Ministry of Tourism, and to collaborate as a diplomat at the Association of Caribbean States, based in Trinidad and Tobago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">As Regional Program Director, Tanya applies her knowledge and experience to support CORAL\u2019s effort to promote coral reef conservation through water and sanitation, institutional strengthening, and sustainable tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.<\/p><cite>Ryunosuke Akutagawa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanya is an environmental engineer whose background and passion are focused on creating solutions for sustainable development. Her engineering studies, along with her master\u2019s degree in geo-environmental technologies from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and her specialty in strategic planning from The Polytechnic University of Valencia, opened the door for her to work with diverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9006,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"coral_transparent_header":false,"coral_hide_siblings_nav":false,"coral_hide_flyout":false,"coral_hide_title":false,"coral_no_footer_gap":false,"coral_subtitle":"","coral_subheading":"","title":"Regional Director, Conservation Programs (Western Caribbean)","location":"Honduras (Bay Islands)"},"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-1305","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mesoamerican-region-program-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coral.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}