She has done her graduation from Concord Academy in Massachusetts. In 1980, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College at Harvard University.She has taken a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School.She has worked as a summer intern at the New York Daily News, earning $156 a week.
Later after competing her graduation she started her career as a Research Assistant in the Film and Television Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.