[5] Born in Pando, Somers was the eldest of three daughters of deeply catholic mother María Judith Locino and the anarchist businessman Pedro Etchepare.
She taught in different schools after that and so became aware of the problems facing different social environments,[6] which eventually led her to publishing essays such as Educación en la adolescencia (1957), winner of the Departmental Council of Montevideo.
[9] After her "scandalous" debut with the erotic novel La mujer desnuda (1950),[3] she became a delegate of the Biblioteca y Museo Pedagógico del Uruguay in 1957 to the Inter-American Seminar on primary education to the Organization of American States (OAS) and UNESCO,[10] being appointed deputy director of the Museum a few years later.
[10] The following year, she was invited by the Academic Exchange Service of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn (DAAD) to visit that country to advance her studies in her field.
[13] In 1962, she represented Montevideo at the United Nations during the Seminar on Education for Development and Social Progress; being appointed director of the Library and Pedagogical Museum in Uruguay.
[3] Somers acknowledged influence from the life of writers and thinkers like Peter Kropotkin, Giacomo Leopardi, Charles Darwin, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Spenser, and others.