Holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Studies by El Colegio de Mexico; a Masters in Regional Development by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; and a B.A. in Economics by the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN).

She has served at different public and private non-governmental organizations as Social Controller for Water, Social Inequality in Mining Extraction and Access to Water in the Communities. She has also been a professor at UAN. She has published different papers on that subject.