She is a professor and researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) and has been a visiting professor at IESCO - Universidad Central. Anthropologist from the University of Antioquia (Medellín) and Master in Gender Studies from the National University of Colombia (Bogotá). Her academic work and fields of study as a researcher focus on feminist anthropology, the genealogies of anthropology and the intersections of the gender category with other notions such as peasantry, social class, ethnicity, race and territory.