Between 1994 and 1997 she received a BA in Community Development and MA in Women's Studies, both from the Victoria University of Technology.

[1][2] In 2006 she became the second women from the Solomon Islands to have been awarded a PhD, receiving her doctorate from the Victoria University of Wellington, with a thesis titled Painaha: Gender and Leadership in 'Are'Are Society, the South Sea Evangelical Church and Parliamentary Leadership-Solomon Islands.

From 2008 to 2010 she served as the Coordinator of Women in Government Strategic Programme, from 2009 to 2011 she was the Chairperson of the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education Council, and has been chair of the University of the South Pacific Solomon Islands Campus Advisory Committee.

[6] She has also been a member of the National Financial Inclusion Taskforce (NFIT) under the Central Bank of Solomon Islands.

[11] With a focus on social justice, she has also contributed to research and academic journals, including papers in Oceania.