After competing for the Dominican Republic in the 1979 Pan American Games, where she set national records in swimming, she studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Sapienza University of Rome, before working as a professor in both institutions.
[3] In 2012, she was inducted to Club Naco's Inmortalidad del Deporte hall of fame in her capacity as an athlete.
[5] She worked as an architect in Santo Domingo after her 1983 graduation from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU).
[2][6] Her 1993 doctoral thesis on the Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Problemi di Lettura delle Superfici Architettoniche: Metodologia di Restauro per una fabbrica romana del Cinquecento, was supervised by Giovanni Carbonara [it].
[2][6] One of the buildings she helped restore while working at the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro was San Pietro in Montorio.