Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development

Professor and researcher at the University of Guadalajara.
Member of the National Researchers System of Mexico, level 1.
Vice-chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on "Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Ph.D. in Business. University of Barcelona
MEd. Educational Administration and Policy. University of Alberta

PhD. Student at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas (CUCEA) de la Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco,México

Research-Professor at the Benemérita Universidad Auton´ma de Puebla, Puebla, México.

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a Master's in Economics from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) and a Bachelor's in Economics from Veracruzana University (UV), along with a Technical degree in Library Science from El Colegio de México.

She is a full-time Professor-Researcher “C” and Director of the Center for Quality and Innovation in Education at the University of Guadalajara.

She is a member of the National Researchers System (SNI, level II), Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on "Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship," and an evaluator of national and international programs and projects, as well as a member of national and international academic networks.

She is a member of the Citizen Technical Council of the Continuous Improvement System for Education (SIMEJORA) in Jalisco.

She has received multiple awards and distinctions for her teaching work and contributions to social and educational innovation.

She was the Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Leadership, and Equity. She served as the Academic Secretary of the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES), Vice President of the Public Administration Institute of Jalisco (Chapter of the National Institute of Public Administration), and President of the Network of Academics of Ibero-America.

She has been a professor at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, the National Pedagogical University, the National Polytechnic Institute, the Matías Romero Institute, the Graduate School of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Guadalajara Campus), and was a founding professor at the Higher Institute of Research and Teaching for the Teaching Profession (ISIDEM) in Jalisco.

She teaches in the Doctorate in Higher Education Management and has collaborated with the Doctorate in Education at the Autonomous University of Morelos, the Doctorate in Sustainable Development at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, and the Doctorate in Education at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas.

She has been a visiting researcher at the International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IIESALC) of UNESCO, a Visiting Scholar at the College of Education at Arizona State University (ASU) in the United States, at Pais 8 University in France, at the University of Costa Rica, at the National University of La Plata and the National University of Tres de Febrero in Argentina, at the Lusophone University in Portugal, and at the University of the Coast in Colombia.

Non-academic activities include ballroom dancing, painting, and altruistic activities.