She holds a Law degree from Universidad Católica de Colombia, and she majored in Criminal Law and Criminology Sciences at Universidad Externado de Colombia. She has knowledge about International Criminal Law, justice standards, the Accusatory Criminal System, investigation techniques, and collective rights.
Furthermore, she has more than 38 years of experience in the administration of justice, in which she has held important positions at the Attorney General’s Office and the Judicial Branch. She began in the position of municipal judge of mixed jurisdiction in Fonseca (La Guajira); and she later served as a municipal criminal judge, examining magistrate, and a circuit court judge. She also held the position of delegate prosecutor to the High Court of the Judicial District of Riohacha and Barranquilla in which she worked as coordinator of the unit, and Sectional director of Prosecutor’s Offices. She was also assigned to the Transitional Justice Directorate and the National Directorate of Support for Investigations and Analysis on Organized Crime.
In 2006, she was designated delegate prosecutor to the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Court of Barranquilla in which she led the regional coordination of that unit and the national coordination of the Working Group on Indigenous Affairs in the processing of Law 975 of 2005. In her role as prosecutor of Transitional Justice, she stood out for creating contexts that revealed macro-criminality patterns of illegal organized groups operating in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, especially those related to forced disappearances, gender-based violence, and violence against indigenous people in their cultural and spiritual environment.
Between 2022 and 2024, she served as procuradora delegada for Monitoring the Peace Agreement and Public Policy for Victims, and leading the drawing up of reports submitted to the Congress on the implementation of the Peace Agreement and the Political Opposition Statute; to the Follow Up and Monitoring Committee about Victims and Land Restitution Law; and the Monitoring Report on the Comprehensive Program of Guarantees for Women who are Leaders and Human Rights Defenders (Programa Integral de Garantías para mujeres lideresas y defensoras de Derechos Humanos PIGMLD in spanish).
In her professional experience, she has been a university professor for more than 20 years, teaching Criminal Law at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla. Moreover, she has been a lecturer and speaker at national and international seminars on Transitional Justice, human rights, and organized crime.
Her professional and teaching experience, her contributions to the peace processes with special focus on situations faced by social leaders, and the relationship with the ancestral authorities of indigenous people that allowed the legalization of macro crime patterns, were decisive to receive the recognition ‘José Ignacio de Márquez Award al mérito judicial’ awarded by the Judiciary in Riohacha (Consejo Seccional de la Judicatura); and the ‘Waraarat de Oro’ awarded by Universidad de La Guajira for her contribution to the defense of the rights of indigenous communities during the armed conflict.