PhD in Social Anthropology, Universidad Iberoamericana, Master in Botany, Postgraduate college. Biologist, ENEP-IZTACALA, UNAM. Senior Researcher El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Master's thesis El Códice Florentino: Su información Etnobotánica, winner of Honorable Mention in the Efraím Hernández Xolocotzi Contest. Doctoral thesis Grupo doméstico y usos del parentesco entre los mayas macehuales del Centro de Quintana Roo: El caso del Ejido Xhazil y anexos, obtained Honorable Mention for best doctoral thesis 2005 from the UIA. Level I of the SNI. She made a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. Research interests: Reproduction and social organization in the appropriation of territory in the use of natural resources in indigenous peasant societies from which projects and publications in specialized journals and books have derived.