Prior to becoming a TVI she worked with or for the school system in a variety of capacities including as a high school writing center coordinator and youth development/health educator supervisor. Nalida graduated with a JD and MPA from Suffolk University Law School and School of Management. It was there, while taking special education law and disability policy classes, that she decided her true calling was to teach blind children. She received her M.Ed. from UMass Boston’s Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education (NERCVE) program in special education concentrating in teaching students who are blind and visually impaired.