Catalina Monsalve

Catalina Monsalve is the Project Manager for Incusive Excellence. In this role, Catalina helps advance the ASU Charter supporting the HSI/Excelencia in Education, LIFT and ADVANCE/SEA Change initiatives by working collaboratively on projects and programs across the enterprise, while supporting the Vice Provost to advance the mission of the Office of Inclusive Excellence.

Before joining the Provost Office team, Catalina served as a Project Manager at Herberger with the Arts, Media and Engineering team supporting the Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) research portfolio.

Prior to this role, Catalina worked with the Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education where she led a broad portfolio of global, non-credit and professional development programs including the U.S. Department of State Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), the USAID Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) and helped develop custom training programs for various organizations, including Intel Corporation, Arizona Public Service (APS), Salt River Project (SRP), Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), T-Mobile, Boeing and Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Catalina has dedicated 15 years of her career to higher education, working at the Maricopa Community Colleges and at ASU for the last 11 years. A first-generation Colombian native college graduate, she began her education at Mesa Community College and continued as a transfer student at ASU. She is an ASU double graduate with a B.A. in Business – Public Service and Public Policy from the W.P. Carey School of Business, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. Catalina also holds a certificate of International Business Studies from W.P. Carey. Additionally, she she is certified in Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and certified Sustainable Event Planner. Catalina serves as co-advisor of ASU Los Diablos Student Club, supports the HSI Advisory, and the DEI Deans Designees Councils. She has served on the boards of the Chicano/Latino Faculty and Staff Association (CLFSA), and the ASU Project Management Network (PM Network). She is an active member of CLFSA, the ASU PM Network, the ASU Organizational Excellence Community Practice (OECoP), the Committee for Campus Inclusion (CCI) and  the ASU Staff Council.

Other community engagement activities include being a member of the Project Management Institute, Phoenix Chapter Social Good Committee, the Arizona Town Hall Development Committee and active volunteerism work with Moms Pantry, the Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine chapter, Feed My Starving Children, Boys and Girls Club, St. Mary’s Food Bank, and U-Haul volunteers.

Catalina is a dedicated, energetic and highly-motivated project management professional with a proven record of success in implementing innovative programs that support the strategic direction of the organization. She fosters productive collaborations with cross-functional teams, helps develop and implement standards for common areas of practice across diverse stakeholder communities to advance the goals, objectives and achieve desired outcomes.