Jones-Kapp graduated from Tallinn 37th Secondary School in 1978 and in 1983 with a degree in history from the University of Tartu cum laude.

In addition to university studies, she worked as a junior research fellow at the Estonian Academy of Sciences Institute of History from 1983 to 1989.

Since 1989, she has been working at Horisont, at the beginning as a humanitarian assistant, and later as chief and executive editor.

[2] In addition, she completed her studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in the Master's program at the Estonian Institute of Demography.

[4] Jänes-Kapps' father was a medical scientist, hygienist and popularist in medicine Harri Jänes [et].