After her apprenticeship as a bank clerk she studied business education (and management training) in Nuremberg. Afterwards she finished her traineeship as a teacher and since 2010 she has been working at the business college in Bad Neustadt (Germany). In 2004 her daughter Maya was born with the Marshall-Smith Syndrome. Besiders her diverse jobs in local clubs/associations and in parents`councils she has been a Board Member of the MSS Research Foundation since 2016.