In 2017, Colunga began her activism through Girl Up, a United Nations Foundation initiative, to organize workshops and fundraising initiatives to benefit young women and girls. Today, Colunga is part of Girl Up’s inaugural Global Board, where she counsels on the organization’s operations impacting over 270,000 community members in over 152 countries.

In 2021, Colunga was one of eight Next Generation Fellows appointed to respond to the United Nations Secretary-General’s request for youth to shape Our Common Agenda. She co-wrote and developed Our Future Agenda with policy proposals from young people worldwide.

In 2023, Colunga was appointed by the Mexican Government as Mexican Delegate for the G20’s Youth Summit (Y20) in India, where she acted as lead negotiator for the track “Shared Future: Youth in Governance."

Colunga received the prestigious Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where she graduated from in 2023 with an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. 

Colunga graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2022 with a B.A. International Relations and Global Studies and B.A. Latin American Studies, with a minor in French Studies

Colunga is proficient in four languages: Spanish (Native), English (Bilingual), French (Upper Intermediate), and Portuguese (Intermediate)

Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarship (University of Oxford, 2022-2023)

Dean’s Distinguished Graduate (University of Texas at Austin, 2022)

Cum laude ampla et magna (University of Texas at Austin, 2021)

Finalist for the Rhodes Trust Global Scholarship (2021)

Student of the Year Nominee, DivInc's Champions of Change Awards (2021)

LLILAS Benson Community Engagement Award (2020)

Magna cum laude (University of Texas at Austin, 2020)