Chicha Reina pursued her professional career as a teacher of preschool and primary grades, a role she combined with political activism as a councilwoman in the Santa Brígida City Council (Gran Canaria), a position she held from 1991 to 1999.

As a researcher, her notable works focus on topics related to women and culture in the Canary Islands.

[1] In March 2018, she presented Mujeres en la isla (Women on the Island) at the Casa de Colón in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a compilation and research work related to the magazine Mujeres en la isla,[2] a publication entirely authored by women that was published in Gran Canaria between November 1953 and December 1964.

Reina presented this work on the island of Lanzarote in July 2018,[3] and in Gáldar (Gran Canaria) as part of the literary talk "El Ultílogo" in January 2020.

[4] Two months later, again at the Casa Colón, Reina presented the book Antología de 100 escritoras canarias (Anthology of 100 Canarian Female Writers), which features the biographies of 112 women authors from the Canary Islands, along with samples of their works.