She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from De La Salle University Manila and received the Asian Cultural Council – Silverlens Foundation Grant (2008) to attend the ICP, New York. Navarroza completed her scholarship at the Istituto Europeo di Design, Madrid under the program European Master of Fine Art Photography in 2012. She is the recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award (2012), the Ateneo Art Award (2007), Lumi Photographic Art Awards, Helsinki (2011), and was finalist for the prestigious Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2011) and Singapore Museum Signature Art Prize (2011).