After I finished university, I worked for a while in public institutions. This experience led me to understand that changes towards a free and democratic society should come from the power of the civil society. This is the reason why we founded the Political Institute for Freedom (IPL) to promote the values of freedom through civic education. As part of my work, I am dedicated to strengthen the capacity of civil society leaders, where there is no democracy or it is threatened, such as in Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti. In Peru, we especially work on the defense of youth and LGBTIQ + rights and the training of young people in the field of human rights. 

In 2007, four members of my organization and I, along with 15 activists from other countries, all women, traveled to Cuba on the eve of International Human Rights Day to express an act of solidarity in Havana with “The Ladies in White”, who used to protest in the Church of Santa Rita every Sunday for the freedom of their relatives. This led us to be detained and interrogated by the regime, and eventually expelled from Cuba. It inspired me to make a documentary called "Cuba and the Elephants". It seeks to reflect on the repression that have been proclaimed by the dictatorship and what the Cuban people really experience.

The obstacles to the human rights defenders  in closed societies are mainly repression, persecution with imprisonment, impediments to leave the country and the impossibility of keeping a fluent and safe communication within and outside of those countries. All this affects the defenders spirit and also those of us who help them from outside. The regimes and dictatorships know this and try to wear down human rights defenders by threatening them with jail. This is what my regional work is about. In Peru, we and several other organizations took a civic initiative in order to seek recognition of civil unions for same-sex couples, since there were no changes through the parliament or other legal channels. We wanted to file an action of unconstitutionality by omission before the constitutional court so that the issue could be discussed. For that, we needed to collect 5,000 signatures. It was extremely difficult to get the signatures on the streets, because there is still much homophobia, not only within the state apparatus but also in the society itself. We could not win this battle due to the lack of signatures; however, it taught us that we must multiply the efforts for education that includes training on sexual diversity and inclusive culture.

In Cuba, the regime that invents disinformation campaigns about human rights defenders and activists in their country included us in that disinformation campaign calling us “mercenaries and anti-revolutionaries”. The government tries to discredit their opponents who fight for the democracy and freedom, and those of us who help them so that we are intimidated and stop helping them.