She studied law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and earned a master’s degree in insurance law from the Universidad Javeriana. She worked as human rights director of the Ministry of the Interior and was part of the government delegation at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearings where Colombia ratified legal guarantees for peaceful social protest. She was also deputy minister for participation and equal rights, and she worked in the law and order department of the Governor’s Office of Cundinamarca between 2009 and 2010. At the Inspector General’s Office of Colombia, she worked as delegate inspector for civil affairs, judicial inspector, and director of the Conciliation Center. In addition, she was the legal advisor for the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace between August 2003 and December 2005. At the Attorney General’s Office, she was head of the Information Center on Criminal Activities (CISAD, in Spanish) from 1996 to 1997, where she handled information about arrest warrants, detention measures, and sentences. In the private sector, she carried out several consultancies on criminal and legal-financial affairs. She participated at the Negotiation Table as a national government plenipotentiary beginning on November 26, 2013. Member of the government delegation in the Gender Subcommittee.
