With a Bachelor in History on the UNAM and Master in Modern and Contemporary History from the Mora Institute, Figueras researches images and oral memories. She has fifteen years of experience working with oral history methodology and audiovisual tools and has made various documentaries about the Huapango and the Huasteco Sones. Huapango is a family of Mexican music styles from the Nahuatl word cuauhpanco that means 'on top of the wood'. It makes sense since the dancers perform on a wooden platform.

Figueras has also been a speaker at various conferences on the topic of oral history of the Huapango of Veracruz and Puebla. She is involved in a civil association that seeks to preserve and spread the Huapago in the Veracruz municipality of Tepetzintla. Additionally, she has developed interactive and didactic history material for primary school students.

Currently, she is preparing her doctoral research about the construction of visual images of the Mexican and Colombian hippies through photographs.