 She graduated from the Natural Sciences High School (now the Onisifor Ghibu High School), and studied Philology at the UBB's Romanian-Spanish Department (graduating in 1985).She received her graduation diploma with a thesis on the work of poet Mihai Eminescu ("Moartea, visual şi somnul în opera lui Eminescu", or "Death, Dreaming and Sleep in the Work of Mihai Eminescu").After being assigned a teaching position in 1988, she taught Romanian language and literature at educational institutions in Năsăud, Bistriţa, and Avrig.