Lawyer and specialist in Administrative Law from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She holds a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Protection from Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Public Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and is currently a PhD candidate at Universidad de Girona. She has taught at several universities in Spain and Colombia and is currently a professor at Universidad de Los Andes, where she also co-leads the project “Land Purchase Risk Map.”

She has served as an Assistant Magistrate at the Council of State and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). She was Deputy Attorney for Agrarian Affairs and Land Restitution, and at the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, she led the work on the Ethnic Chapter of the Final Peace Agreement with the FARC. She also advised the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) during the National Population and Housing Census, and served as Director of Prior Consultation at the Ministry of the Interior.

She has been a consultant for the Mining Dialogue Group in Colombia (GEDIAM), the Center for Intercultural Studies at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, the Hernán Echavarría Olózaga Institute of Political Science, the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining – Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland, UNDP, GIZ, FUPAD, among other public and private entities.