She is a primary, secondary, and tertiary education teacher and holds a licentiate in Pedagogy from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala,[1] where she studied from 1982 to 1990.

[1] She served as director of planning, coordinator of the IBRF project, and quality manager of the Ministry of Education.

Until 2012, Guatemala was one of the few countries in the world where initial teacher training was maintained at the high school level.

[6] In January 2015, the deputy of the Commitment, Renewal and Order (CREO) bloc, Selvin García, filed a writ of amparo against Cynthia del Águila, for not having fulfilled her promise to rebuild 381 schools that were damaged by the earthquake of 7 November 2012, which left 48 dead, 150 injured, and hundreds of homes damaged.

[7] She resigned as Ministry of Education on 22 August 2015, at the same time as two other prominent officials, saying that she felt "disappointed and betrayed" by the Patriotic Party administration.