[3] She then became a doctoral student at the Complutense University of Madrid, and in the 1999–2000 school year she participated in an Education Abroad Program at the University of California, San Diego.

[3] Bescansa was a co-founder of the political party Podemos, officially registering it as a political party on 11 March 2014 together with Pablo Iglesias Turrión and Juan Carlos Monedero.

[5] In the 2015 Spanish general election, Bescansa was ranked second on the Podemos party list to the Congress of Deputies for the Madrid constituency, and she won the seat.

[6] She launched a candidacy for President of the Congress of Deputies, but lost the race to Patxi López.

[7] In 2017, Bescansa publicly split with the leadership of Podemos, and left her positions within the party.