Ana is a Colombian attorney, graduated from the LL. M. program at UCLA. She was a researcher at the Racial Discrimination Watch and at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia). Ana worked as a lawyer for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Following this experience, she worked at the International Organization for Migration as project coordinator of the Inclusion for the Peace Program for issues of indigenous communities and communities of African descent. 

Currently, she is working at the NGO, Women’s Link Worldwide. Ana also has been a consultant for the Race, Equality, and Human Rights Institute. Ana is the co-founder of ILEX Acción Jurídica, an organization of Afro-Colombian lawyers (composed of former ODR scholars), which is dedicated to racial justice.