[1][2] Her parents were Catalan exiles who came to Mexico due to the Spanish Civil War; her father was the writer Raimon Galí [es].
[4] From age 16, she began teaching music classes, having studied guitar at Barcelona's Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.
[4] For her bachelor's thesis at the University of Barcelona, she decided to work on a Mexican theme, as she planned to return to her home country, so she focused on the paintings of Pedro García Ferrer in the Puebla Cathedral.
[2][4] After receiving her master's and spending two years living in Bolivia, and in anticipation of the procedures necessary for her husband to pursue postgraduate studies in Mexico, Galí returned to her native country.
Beginning in 1997, she helped create and develop the project "Mexico-France: Memories of a Common Sensibility in the 19th and 20th Centuries," which involved conferences, seminars, colloquiums, and publications.