Socióloga con un doctorado en Desarrollo Internacional por la Universidad de Oxford. Es profesora e investigadora principal del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Sección de Sociología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
From a political sociology approach, she has studied environmental issues in particular mobilization and activism for environmental justice in a context of expanding extractive capitalism. More recently, he has also examined conflict and negotiation as a consequence of the local implementation of global climate change policies, in particular conservation in the Amazon forest and among indigenous peoples.