[1][2] At six months old she moved with her mother Virginia Martins Ribas to the city of União da Vitória.

At age 19 she moved to the town of Araucária, Curitiba, to attend college.

She conducted training courses in Health Planning at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and nursing locomotor Hospital Sarah Kubitschek in Brasília.

In 1983 she started her activities in Araucária, acting as Nurse Family Health program.

In this position she developed teaching activities as an instructor of courses and attendant nurse and training of community health workers.