Public sector
A lawyer, she has made Galápagos her home for more than a decade. She started there in public service: as provincial lawyer for Ecuador's National Transit Agency and, from 2015 to 2019, as legal advisor to the Galápagos office of the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), where she worked on agreements and programs for women, girls, boys and adolescents. She was one of the people who pushed for the first ordinance to prevent and eradicate violence in the province.
Private sector and civil society
In private practice she represented women and non-profit organizations, and in 2022 she was a legal consultant to Conservation International for the Galápagos National Park Directorate. She was one of the founders of the women's collective Tejido Violeta Galápagos.
In 2021 she founded Ola Igualdad to join two things that are often kept apart on the islands: women's rights and the care of the sea. Huertos y Derechos and Guardianas Azules grew from there. Her mornings snorkeling at Tijeretas and her favorite beach, La Lobería, are part of that idea.
Academia and research
From 2022 to 2025 she was a professor of Gender and Development and the university ombudsperson at the Galápagos campus of Universidad San Francisco de Quito. She holds a master's in international studies from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, as a fellow of the KOICA–Ewha Gender Equality program. Today she is a PhD student in Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studies women's well-being and agency and the resilience of island communities. In 2026 that work earned her an international fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
