 She started her political life in 1997 as an advisor to Deputy Leonidas Iza.Years later, she became Undersecretary of Rural Development in the Ministry of Social Welfare under the government of Lucio Gutiérrez, leaving the post when the existing alliance between the Government and Pachakutik was broken.In 2005 she became executive secretary of the Development Council of Nationalities and Peoples of Ecuador (Codenpe), since she served until 2009.