 She began working at age twelve as a maid, suffering sexual harassment from her employers.Shortly after she began to actively spread the evangelical creed, moving to Brazil, where she participated in the Basic ecclesial community and identified with the Workers' Party (PT), led by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.At age 18, in 1988, she decided to recover his indigenous roots, returning to the ancestral lands of his father, in the area of Ingeniero Jacobacci, province of Rio Negro.