Simone graduated from Boston University’s College of Communication with a B.S. in Film. She holds a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate from Teachers College at Columbia University and has worked in the tech industry for the largest Latin American Social Network, EFL teaching, and as a translator in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 2017–2022, she was a literacy consultant with Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), working in the NYC public schools. Simone received her M.A. in Psychology from the New School for Social Research in 2023, where she was a Fellow at the Zolberg Institute of Migration and Mobility. In her research at the Zolberg Institute, she collaborated with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to examine the critical implications of implementing Audioclass, an AI-driven pedagogical chatbot which provides content to learners in various formats such as texts, audio, videos, games, PDFs.