Besides her acting and singing training in NYC, Rome, and Montreal, Tina is also a certified elementary school teacher . She graduated from McGill University in Education and has always loved working with the youth. At age twelve, she started a talent show at the summer camp she volunteered and then worked at.

In addition to performing, she works  at both the elementary and high school level, using her teaching and dramatic skills to put on musicals and other theatrical performances with students.

Some of her work includes: 'Musical Memories' and 'Across the Universe' at Kells Academy  , performed at the Oscar Peterson Hall (including more than 175 students);  she was the creative director for Santhei Productions' special music videos (featuring grade 6 graduating classes); she directed an adolescent comedy troupe for one of Joe Cacchione's Montreal comedy shows at the Leonardo Da Vinci Center.