Carmen María Montiel Ávila (born December 19, 1964)[1][2][3] is a Real Estate Broker, a Venezuelan-American journalist, writer, activist and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 1984.
[6] That year, Montiel would create the charitable foundation “Las Misses” to aid pediatric hospitals in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru.
In 1986, she became a frequent guest on the Mexican Sunday celebrity spotlight program "Siempre en Domingo" and hosted the Miss Universe Special in Panama.
She received a bachelor's in Broadcasting and Spanish, Magna Cum Laude, from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City in 1991.
A frequent commentator in print and broadcast media,[22] Montiel has drawn attention to human-rights and economic concerns in her native Venezuela.
[23] Montiel wrote about physical and psychological abuses she survived during her marriage to her ex-husband[24] in her 2020 memoir Stolen Identity: A Story of Love, Violence and Liberation.