Susana Huanca Machaca was born in Puno, Peru in 1970. She studied at I.E. Sicta and Instituto Pedagógico “Jose Jimenez Borja” in Tacna, graduating in 1988. She met and married her husband in 1993 and 1995 respectively, and they have one son who currently attends university. Susana worked at Huanuco Micaela Bastidas school and obtained a scholarship to study at the University of Piura, where she currently resides while writing her thesis about information technology and communication, attending online conferences.