Professor María Teresa Ocejo Cazares studied the Bachelor of Architecture at the National School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Metropolitana (UNAM), Master´s and specialist in design, planning and conservation of landscapes and gardens, in the postgraduate degree of CyAD of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Azcapotzalco Campus. She is a founding Professor of this same Campus, which she began working in 1974 at the Department of Research and Knowledge for Design.

In the Azcapotzalco Campus of the UAM, she was director of CyAD1986-1990, advisor to the general Dean, 1991-1994, Coordinator of Vinculation, distinguished professor of the UAM, 2011, responsible for the Postgraduate Line in Design, Planning and conservation of landscapes and gardens 2012-2015, where she is currently a member of the committee of the same postgraduate. She has worked on environmental, urban and housing improvement, public space, landscape, urban practices in neighborhoods of Mexico City and in the metropolitan area.

Distinguished professor of the UAM, she has the Academic Merit Medal for the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus,19 de Septiembre Prize for Neighborhood Improvement Project of the Tepito neighborhood 1986 earthquakes, Sir Robert Mathew Prize, Improvement of Human Establishments 1987, Recognition to Profile Prodep 2012. Professor Ocejo is part of the Iberoamericana de Paisaje Latinoamericano (RIPLA). She obtained the Prodep profile 2015-2017. Responsible for the Line in the Postgraduate Design Planning and Conservation of Landscapes and Gardens, of the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus, 2012 - 2015.