From 2019 to 2023, she served as president of the National Institute for Indigenous Affairs, under the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

[1] After graduating from the National University of Córdoba, she moved to the town of Sierra Grande in Río Negro Province.

In 2011, she was a CC-ARI candidate for governor of Río Negro, but obtained only 5.34% of the votes, losing to Carlos Soria from the Front for Victory.

[4] In 2015, she was a candidate for governor for the Progressive Front for Equality and the Republic, competing against Miguel Ángel Pichetto and Alberto Weretilneck.

[8] In December 2019, President Alberto Fernández appointed Magdalena Odarda head of the National Institute for Indigenous Affairs.