Teresita joined UNESCO at its headquarters (Paris) in 1995. In 2003 she was deployed to the UNESCO office in Ramallah. In 2005 she joined the UNESCO office in San Jose, Costa Rica, where she was in charge of several national projects on youth development and prevention of violence (notably in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic). She also supervised research projects regarding the fight against poverty and the promotion of human rights (the right to education, the rights of migrants, the rights of women, etc.). Teresita left UNESCO in 2014 and returned to Mexico, where she carried out several courses on human rights, security, and prevention of violence. She has carried out five consultancies with the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), notably on issues of human rights, social policy, and prevention of youth violence in Central America. She is a Mexican national who did her undergraduate studies in Canada on international development and political science, and her Ph.D. in sociology, at El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico. She recently finalized an online master's degree in studies and prevention of gender-based violence at the University of Salamanca. She is currently setting up a one-stop center for the attention and prevention of violence against women in Mexico. Teresita is a Salzburg Global Fellow.