[2] She grew up in Baraboi village, Dondușeni, where she attended the general school;[1] afterwards, she wanted to follow her dream to become a folk song singer, but was rejected from Ștefan Neaga Musical College.

[1] Since 1992, she was an assistant at the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University, and since 2003, she has been an associate professor in the Romanian and Comparative Literature Department.

[4] Since 2002, she has collaborated with the Educational Center Pro Didactica as a trainer and expert; while in that position, she formed her visions on gender equality.

[8] On 29 July 2014 Loretta Handrabura sent a letter to President Nicolae Timofti announcing that she was giving up the honor by asking to be excluded from the list and saying that she "prefers to remain with the experience gained as negotiator of the Moldova-EU Association Agreement".

[9][10][11][12][13] She has published a monograph, a manual, five studies, four teaching aids, five microstudies, seven analytical programs and around one hundred articles (fifty-six scientific).