Elisa holds a degree in Graphic Communication and Advertisement and has worked in a range of fields, including in the creation of campaigns for the advertising agency TBWA/Colombia and textile prints for a mayor kids fashion brand in Colombia. For the past 4 years she has been the Graphics Manager and Visual Editor at a think tank that specializes in investigating organized crime and its impact in Latin America.

She sees design as a medium for social transformation that can be used to inform and create connections between policymakers and the general public, create awareness and hopefully help to illustrate possible solutions to important and often unseen social problems.