Isabella Montoya

Correspondent, The Americas

With a background in photojournalism from NYU, Isabella has spent the last 15 years living out of a suitcase, documenting everything from remote eco-lodges in Costa Rica to private yacht expeditions in Antarctica. Her work, which has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler and National Geographic, often explores how high-end travel can be a force for good. She won a SATW Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award for her feature on regenerative tourism in Patagonia. Isabella's writing is known for its vivid, first-person narrative style that places the reader directly in the experience.