[1] Her father worked in the region's gold mines, and her mother sold pastries to local timber workers.
[1] After Wilson's term on the FSLN directorate came to an end in 1998, she moved on to focus on work with women's rights organisations.
[1] In 2001, at a UN conference in South Africa, Wilson, alongside Sergia Galvan and Nirva Camacho, argued for greater recognition of the 150 million Afro-descendent people in Hispanophone countries.
[7] In 2015, she organized the first Summit of Afro-descendant Women Leaders of the Americas, which took place from 26–28 June in Managua, Nicaragua.
[3] In her opening speech, she referred to the limitations faced by Afro-descendant women in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Diaspora.