Graduate in Modern Language Portuguese-German from Federal University of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil in 1983. She worked for seven years as a teacher in first grade in her family school, Instituto Rosalina Resende in Rio De Janeiro where she got a good pedagogical experience. Since 1988 she has lived in Houston where she teaches Portuguese for foreign people. Since 2008 she has been teaching Portuguese at Brazilian Arts Foundation in Houston.She is the author of the book "Portugues Dinamico Seculo 21" first published in 2004, with the second publication date with the new orthography being published in 2009. Her second book is "Portuguese for Kids" as a second language published in 2011.