Doctoral candidate in Educational Innovation, by the Tecnológico de Monterrey (México). PhD in Education (concentration: Applied Linguistics to Spanish as a Foreign Language), by the Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana UNINI (Mexico). Magister in Spanish linguistics by Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Colombia). B.A. in Spanish and English by Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Colombia). She has worked as a teacher and researcher at several universities in Colombia. The lines of research in which she performs her work are focused on academic writing, Spanish as a foreign language, language teaching and learning, ICT in education.