She is a Full Time Researcher of the Fonoteca of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. It belongs to the National System of Researchers It is an ethnologist by the National School of Anthropology and History, a teacher in Anthropology by the Institute of Anthropological Research of the UNAM, teacher and doctor in History by the College of Mexico. Since 1990 she has carried out research in various anthropological and historical fields about the state of Chiapas and since 1999 she has been a researcher and coordinator (since 2008) of the Chiapas regional team within the National Ethnography of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico project (1999-2008 Conacyt-INAH, 2008 -To date, INAH) He was a member of the GDRI Group of Recherche Internationel d'Anthropologie de l'Art Musée du Quai Branly / Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, (in agreement with INAH 2006-2009) He has taught National School of Anthropology and History, of the degree in Ethnomusicology and of the postgraduate of the National School of Music of the UNAM. She has been guest professor of the University School of Music of the Republic of Uruguay; and Visiting Professor at Long Lozano Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Since 2008, she is a professor at the Field Research Project, Education Abroad Program of the University of California, where she teaches the "Seminar on methodology for field research", Casa California in Mexico. She participated as an INAH researcher in the preparation of the file "The Parachicos of the great party of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas" for the declaration as part of the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO (2009) She has published books, essays and articles , as well as phonographic and radio series (with IMER, the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples and INAH).