At age 16, she was accepted into Harvard College, where she attended from 1987 to 1992 and earned a bachelor's degree in music and women's studies.
[2] During her time at Harvard, she would take private piano lessons with Patricia Zander, a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music.
In 1992, she moved to San Francisco where she soon gained the position of assistant conductor with the Palo Alto Philharmonic.
[4] She returned three times to the main stage in the next few years and also led two productions in Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley in conjunction with Cal Performances.
Jobin is a judo black belt and international competitor, having won national championships for Ju-no-Kata in both 1998 and 2006.