After finishing elementary and high school in her hometown, she enrolled at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from which she graduated in history.
[2] In December 2009, Feldman obtained Ph.D. from the Yale University with the doctoral thesis - "Imbro I. Tkalac and Liberalism in Croatia".
As director of the Institute Vlado Gotovac, she organized an international conference "Minorities as a Cross-border Cooperation Bridge" in Osijek in 2003.
Friedman collaborated with the Yale Psychiatric Institute, working as a translator and co-worker on a posttraumatic stress disorder research.
She also analyzed the background of political and historical events in the successor countries of the SFR Yugoslavia for the conductors of research prof. Dori Laub and prof. Steven Wein.
Between 1992 and 1993, she lectured the initial degree of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian languages at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Yale University.
Feldman was an active member of the Liberal Party during the time it was governed by her future husband Ivo Banac.
Feldman was politically inactive until 2013 when she joined Mirela Holy in founding Sustainable Development of Croatia party (ORaH).