As an active socialist, she was a member of the PSE (Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano) as she believed it to be the national revindication movement, that represented principles to fulfill Ecuadorian needs.
She and her husband invested their intellectual effort, as well as their own economic resources, to change the methodology that teachers used in Ecuadorian schools.
Her parents were Ángel Jorge Ortiz Montufar and Victoria Guadalupe Garcés Salazar.
On July 25, 1921, she graduated and began to work as a Spanish teacher in the same High School at the age of nineteen.
Back from Germany, they both implemented new methodologies to improve technical education and try to contribute to the country’s development.