Fabiana was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil and moved to the U.S.A. in 2001. In Brazil, she attended the College of Education where she started teaching preschool and kindergarten, graduating in 1997. Fabiana then attended the University of Io wa, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Education, and moved to Arizona in 2006 to work for a public school in the valley. After teaching for 5 years in the public school, she knew that there was something different in education which called to her and decided to pursue an AMI Primary diploma from Southwest Institute of Montessori Studies.