Is an Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work and researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá campus. Social Worker from the University of Cartagena, Master in Latin American Studies from the University of Paris III. PhD in Social Work from the University of Laval (Canada). She has been a consultant for the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), UN Women and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Advisor for UN Women to the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (CNRR) in the development of the Institutional Program for Collective Reparations (PIRC). She worked as a researcher at the Center for Research on Social Dynamics - Cids - of the Externado University of Colombia together with Lucero Zamudio and Norma Rubiano. She was coordinator and founding member of the Program of Initiatives for Peace and Coexistence - PIUPC - between 1998 and 2001. She is currently the director of the Research Group on Racial Equality, Cultural Difference, Environmental Conflicts, and Racism in the Black Americas - Idcarán. Her research has been funded by Colciencias, the Ford Foundation Andean and Southern Cone Area, the Research Division of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá campus, and the Canadian AUCC. She is an active member of the Center for Thought and Monitoring of the Peace Process that is taking place in Havana (Cuba) of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá campus. And a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Slave Route of UNESCO (2014-2016). She is currently developing important research on ethnic-racial self-recognition processes in the continental and insular Caribbean of Colombia with a view to the next National Population and Housing Census. She has participated as a speaker in her field at various national and international events and has been a visiting professor at the Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium (GPLASC) and at various think tanks in the United States, Canada, France and Brazil.