She attended college in Paris, France where she completed a master's degree in development economics and met her husband, art historian, Didier Schaub.

[1] Starting in 1988, and lasting until 1993, she was a delegate and executive manager for the Central African region of the Association pour la Promotion des Initiatives Communautaires Africaines, or APICA, a pan-African Non-governmental organization based in Douala.

[citation needed] As of 2000, and continuing to present, she is in charge of urban participatory development policies for the decentralized cooperation of the French Alsace Region.

In 2007 she and her husband, created the Salon Urbain de Douala, a triennial festival on public art.

[citation needed] She has contributed to numerous conferences, particularly on independent cultural institutions and on art and urban transformations, including the 2010 Kenya Workshop organised by the Mondriaan Foundation,[2] and Curating in Africa Symposium at the Tate Modern in London.