She holds a PhD in History from the University of Warwick, an MA in Asian and African Studies from El Colegio de México (Colmex) and a Bachelor's degree in Modern English Literature and History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She did a postdoctoral stay at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colmex. He has taught courses in history and area studies at the same school, at the Universidad de las Américas, at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Unidad Iztapalapa and at the Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades. She collaborates in the media democracia Abierta with a particular focus on gender violence in India and Mexico. Other lines of research include: rise of Hindu nationalism, contemporary political culture, commissions of inquiry and Muslims as a minority in India.