[1] She completed her higher education at the University of Cuenca's Faculty of Medicine, where she graduated in 1956 as the first woman to obtain the title of doctor from that institution.
[2][3] In her youth she was associated with left-wing personalities of the time, putting up Che Guevara at her house during his passage through Ecuador to Mexico, and becoming close to communist Nela Martínez and Manuel Agustín Aguirre [es], among others.
Her struggle for women's rights led her to found the March 8 movement in 1975, considered the first feminist organization in Azuay.
Her headstone is inscribed with the phrase "Symbol of commitment and struggle for equity and social justice", and her grave is alongside that of socialist politician Guadalupe Larriva.
[1] In October 2014, Moscoso was posthumously declared an Illustrious Woman by the Cantonal Council of Cuenca for her struggle for women's rights.