[4] Alenda has made most of her career in Chile, where she founded the School of Sociology at Andrés Bello National University (UNAB) in 2009.
After finishing her PhD in Political Sociology at Lille University of Science and Technology in 2001, she obtained a research grant to carry out her postdoctoral studies in 2003 at the Lavoisier Programme, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[13] Alenda stated: «For the UNAB, my presence in this top-level international group is very powerful, as there are only two South American members: a Brazilian and me.
The president of the CPS gave me the task of establishing links with the main political science associations in Latin America and I started with Brazil».
The presentation was commented on by the presidents of the three main parties (at the time) of the right-wing coalition Chile Vamos:[14][15] Mario Desbordes (RN), Hernán Larraín Matte (Evópoli) and Jacqueline van Rysselberghe (UDI).