Graduated from the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL) in France, Valentine has pursued a master's degree in International Relations at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) in Spain. Afterwards, she has been an intern at the Spanish Embassy in Senegal. In parallel to her studies, she has regularly worked in journalism. Passionate about gender issues and more generally intersectional discrimination, she is currently a trainee at the Secretariat of the Istanbul Convention monitoring mechanism, at the Council of Europe.