Psychologist at the University of the Andes, with a specialization in drug and alcohol interventions and policy at the University of London and social policy at Javeriana University. She has 16 years of experience in the field of drugs and HIV, with formal education and work experience in teaching, clinics, prevention and research.

Since 2004 she has consulted for the Minister of Social Protection of Colombia with respect to the characterization, regulation and assessment of the services offered on a national level that deal with drugs. There she led the construction of public policy toward the reduction of demand for drugs through its phases of formulation, validation, implementation and management on both local and national levels.

Currently she leads the Development Unit responsible for implementing national policy and the actions defined in its operating plan for 2009-2010 with regard to each of its central themes: prevention, mitigation, construction and surpassing the response capacity.

She has been used as a reference on harm reduction in Colombia for the WHO, PAHO, and IHRA.

She´s been a consultant for specific projects on surveillance of the second generation of high risk consumers for PAHO, and adviser to the Mechanism Coordinator of the country by means of UNICEF, UNDP, and UNAIDS for the writing of the Colombian proposals with HIV/AID components in the seventh and the ninth World Round Table in the Fight Against AIDS, TB and malaria.