[2] She and her family had to emigrate to Cuba due to the military coup of 11 September 1973 against her grandfather,[3] staying on the island until she was 21 years old.

[2] In the municipal elections of 2012, she ran for the mayorship of Ñuñoa for the Socialist Party on the Concertation list.

[6] The favorite to win the elections was Pedro Sabat, who had been serving as mayor of Nuñoa for the past 16 years.

[7] Fernandez at first won the elections by a slim margin of twenty votes, a result which was appealed by Sabat, who in turn came out victorious after a recount which gave him a thirty-vote lead.

[4] In the 2017 parliamentary elections, she was re-elected deputy, this time for the newly created 10th district of the Metropolitan Region.