Was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1954. Today she is the director of that city's Visual Center Workshop for Photographic and Communications Research, a private foundation dedicated to the research, cataloguing and analysis of early Ecuadorian photography. Chiriboga is a sociologist, a photographer and a researcher on the history of photography. She has exhibited her photographic work and collections of historical images in Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, and Beijing, China.

Her solo exhibition, Cuenca, Ecuador; she contributed to the 1997 Havana Biennial; and was represented in an exhibition of Latin American women in photography held at the 1997 Arhus festival in Denmark. Chiriboga also has published articles and books including "Portrait of the Amazon, Ecuador 1880-1945" (Retrato de la Amazonía Ecuador) and "Naked Identity: Early Photographs of Andean Indians" (Identidades Desnudas: La Temprana Fotografia del Indio de los Andes).