Professor Alicia Saldívar Garduño has a degree in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus, a Master's degree in Social Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and a Ph.D. in Psychology from UNAM. Member of the National System of Researchers Level I.
Collaborator from 1997 to 2004 in the University Program of Gender Studies at UNAM; since 1999 Professor-Researcher in the Department of Sociology at UAM Iztapalapa Campus, and currently, Associate Defender of University Rights at UAM.

Since 2010, she has been a tutor in the Virtual Postgraduate Course "Cultural Management and Cultural Policies", at UAM; from 2010 to 2012, she was the academic coordinator of the national strategy "Early detection of breast cancer: a task for everyone", with the National Institute of Public Health. Responsible and collaborator of research projects and evaluation of social intervention projects in areas such as social assistance, maternal and perinatal health, vulnerability and early pregnancy, migration and HIV/AIDS, and factors associated with alcohol consumption and risk behaviors, among others.