Degree in Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Master in Educational Sciences, with the dissertation Promoção da Autoeficácia no ensino do Inglês no Primeiro Ciclo, Doctoral Student in Literature and Culture, specialization in Comparative Literature, with the Thesis: Resistência, Subversão e Auto subversão em Marguerite Duras, Doris Lessing e Maria Velho da Costa. Scientific degrees were achieved in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. For two decades she was a journalist in the radio industry, in the local and regional press. In recent years she has been an English teacher in the first cycle of basic education, a trainer certified by the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training.