Born in Florence in 1968, she took a degree in foreign languages and literature. She began teaching Italian over ten years ago, in 1997, at Linguaviva, Florence. In 1999 she moved to Palazzo Malvisti, working there as Academic Director. From 2004 to 2006 she worked at the Syracuse University and Kent State University, both American institutions as well as at the British Institute of Florence.

Since 2006 she is an elementary school teacher, taking care also of the teaching of the first letters to foreign children.