She completed her primary and secondary education in Linares and then attended the Talca Normal School between 1919 and 1924, earning a teaching degree.

[4] Then in 1930, she received a fellowship to study at Columbia University in Manhattan[2] and completed both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts before returning home to Chile.

[6] As their governments provided no funding for their attendance, only the women from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, the United States[5] and delegates from Alicia Ricode de Herrera (Colombia), MMe Fernand Dennis (Haiti), El Salvador by proxy and Cecilia Herrera de Olavarría (Venezuela) were there.

Among others, the founders included: Elena Caffarena, Flora Heredia, Evangelina Matte, Graciela Mandujano, Aída Parada, Olga Poblete, María Ramírez [es], Eulogia Román [es], Marta Vergara and Clara Williams de Yunge.

[1] She was teaching at the Pedagogic Institute (now the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences Spanish: Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación) in the faculty of philosophy and education, when in 1947, Parada was named as a professor of the Department of Technical Assessment at the University of Chile.