The daughter of immigrants who left Hungary after the Revolution of 1956, I grew up in New Jersey speaking fluent Hungarian and actively participating in the life of the Hungarian community in New Brunswick. After finishing High School I attended the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest where I studied Art History and Ethnography, the latter of which I received my MA degree in in 1986. I live in a village just outside Budapest with my husband and two children, and have been the Hungarian Culture teacher and resource coordinator at the American International School of Budapest since 2000. In 2012 I published a photography album entitled The Years of Euphoria on the events surrounding the fall of communism in Budapest.