She received her bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in Greece in 1995. She continued with her graduate studies at the University of Minnesota in the United States where she received her master's and doctorate degrees in Educational Psychology with a minor in Early Childhood Special Education, in 1997 and 2000 respectively. During her doctorate studies, she participated and conducted various research projects regarding the development of assessment procedures for measuring monolingual and bilingual children's language growth. Currently, her research interest involve the identification of the attitudes of educators of the Cypriot public school system toward culturally distinct students as well as the development of their cultural awareness.