Natalia Santiago Cohen will represent the department of Cesar in the Miss Universe Colombia 2024 pageant, which will take place on June 2 in the city of Barranquilla.
At 26 years old, the industrial engineer graduated from the Universidad de los Andes, whose flags are the inclusion, social work and beauty of women in the country.
The imposition of the band was carried out by the Secretary of Departmental Culture, Manuel Rangel, delegated by the governor, Elvia Milena Sanjuán Dávila, and who expressed all his support for this beautiful woman to raise the name of the department before Colombia and the world.
A young woman with an important professional career in the field of multinationals, where she has led market research and strategic consulting throughout Latin America, contributing from there to the development of businesses that promote initiatives for vulnerable communities in Colombia.
Social causes have always been his main work front. She is a slender woman with white skin, blonde, blue eyes and is 1.76 cm tall. For several years she has been working to restore the rights of girls and adolescents who are victims of abuse and unwanted pregnancies.
Since she was a child, she has participated as a permanent collaborator in the Casa Taller Foundation, an initiative dedicated to female empowerment and support for the social problems of pregnant teenagers, a project led by her grandmother Carmen Alicia Rivera de Ochoa.
The dream of being a voice of change and support for the women of Cesar is materializing through this space, which is also a platform to make the cultural diversity of the department visible.
‘I WAS INSPIRED BY THE BEAUTY OF CESAR’
The thin woman, whose smile highlights simplicity and love for her land, assures that her inspiration for reaching the beauty contest is to bring the benefits of the Cesar department to the world. “I am calm and confident. As a professional I have prepared myself to reach this point in my life and I am sure that it will leave this land high, which also deserves moments of joy and recognition.”
The idea is to show Caesar from other perspectives. It is a territory where there is talent for everything and the people there are worthy of admiration and from the reign “I can contribute something different to a beauty reign.”
He highlighted that to achieve a good role in these competitions, dedication and commitment are needed to demonstrate that talent transcends borders, and an example of this is vallenato music, which is recognized worldwide.
“I am a visionary woman and I plan my life based on goals and challenges to meet, that is why I projected myself into Miss Universe Colombia, whose pride it is to represent this beautiful department.”
Sure that she will do a good role in the beauty contest, Natalia Santiago Cohen stated that she will show the Cesar department through her work as a beauty queen, for which she will use Miss Universe and her engineering profession as a platform in search of a achieve a social impact in the territory.