Oriana Luquetta has served in the U.S. Foreign Service since 2016. Most recently, she was a political adviser at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where she was the lead U.S. negotiator for Women, Peace, and Security issues. Prior to this, Ori was the special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Her previous diplomatic assignments include the Department of State’s Operation Center, where she served as a watch officer. She also served as a public diplomacy officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing, as a vice consul in U.S. Embassy Mexico City, and as a staff assistant for the Deputy Secretary’s Coronavirus Global Response Coordination Unit (CGRCU) in Washington. She holds degrees from Seton Hall University and a master’s in public policy degree from UCLA. As a Pickering Graduate Fellow, Oriana interned at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, and at the Department of State's Press Office in Washington. She is Colombian-American and grew up in Los Angeles.