[5] In March 2023 she was the CEO of a hotel in Quito[5] and on 23 November 2023 at the Carondelet Palace she was formally made the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility by the new President Daniel Noboa.

[7] In December 2023 she and Ecuador's Production and Trade Minister Sonsoles García met Antony Blinken the US Secretary of State.

[8] In the same month the Attorney General Diana Salazar Méndez had made arrests in Ecuador and in January the country was in crisis as the President announced an internal fight against several drug gangs after the prison escape of José Adolfo Macías Villamar.

[9] Sommerfeld had to deal with the diplomatic fallout after President Nobea ordered a raid on the Mexican embassy on 5 April 2024 to retrieve the fugitive ex-vice-President Jorge Glas.

[11] In October 2024 she announced that Ecuador would stop recognising the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as a country and she informed her opposite numbers in Morocco.