She majored in criminal law at Universidad Externado de Colombia and she has wide knowledge on the Accusatory Criminal System, crimes against property, financial system and stock market, massive and habitual fundraising, money laundering and illicit gain.
She joined the Attorney General’s Office in 1992 in the position of asistente de fiscal. Since then, she served as delegate prosecutor before municipal criminal judges, delegate prosecutor before circuit criminal judges, delegate prosecutor before the Superior Court. She worked in different units of the Sectional Office in Bogotá where she was appointed as director between 2009 and 2011.
Subsequently, she was part of the Human Rights Unit and the staff of the Deputy Attorney General’s Office carrying out assistance, advisory and coordination duties for the Financial Crimes Working Group and the False Witness Working Group. In 2014, she was appointed as Interim Deputy Attorney General.
She was also a delegate prosecutor to the Supreme Court of Justice, national director of the Specialized Judicial Police, coordinator of the Investigation Group of Crimes against the Financial System – Working Group for the Investigation of Crimes against the Financial System and Public Stock Market, and delegate of the Attorney General’s Office to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
On the other hand, she was a trainer for the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), professor at Universidad Externado in criminal activity issues; as well as representative of the Office of the Attorney General´s Office to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the United Nations.