Researcher on lite sciences in Mexico; Biologist, she holds a Master in Science by the Faculty of Science of the UNAM, a PhD in Botanical Science from the University of California (Berkeley. US) and a postdoctoral training by the same university of Lo Joya, in Molecular Genetics and Biological Development of Plants. Her work has been recognized in Mexico and abroad. She has received numerous awards such as the "American Naturalist Society” and Miller Scholarship at the University al California, Berkeley in 2012; in Mexico, the "National Young Academics-UNAM University Academic Award" and UNAM Award of the Academy al Mexican Science (1999) and the “Ciudad Capital Heberto Castillo Martinez” Prize. She is Researcher Level III. She serves on the highest academic category of the UNAM as coordinator UNAM's Molecular Genetics, Epigenetics, Development and Evolution of Plants laboratory. She has devoted large port of her work ta study and conserve biodiversity in Mexico in collaboration with several social organizations, as well as indigenous and local communities, emphasizing pine and tropical forest and focusing in corn craps. She is founder, along with many other researchers of the Union of Scientists Committed to Society (Unión de Científicas Comprometidos con la Sociedad), where she is currently Coordinator of Campaigns and where she coordinates notes socio-environmental observatories and collective and popular science projects, in partnership with other social organizations. Her academic and social work has been guided by a commitment to food sovereignty, agro-ecology and social and environmental justice. She is author al several books and over 200 scientific essays and has trained dozens of emerging researchers.