Ximena is a graduate of the International Relations degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. Since 2015, she has been an activist, researcher on transnational community issues, ally and collaborator in migrant civil organizations.
She has been a researcher on migration issues at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) of UNAM in 2016 and 2017. From 2017 to 2021, she served as coordinator of the safe space, of cultural incidence for the returned community and deported woman called Poch@ House, which is part of the project of the organization Others Dreams in Action—ODA, and is currently the Deputy Director of Operations within the same organization.