Since her childhood, she dabbled in her interest in writing and landscape description, and that tendency for searching for new reading material was later connected with her passion for surrounding herself with nature. The key for her, was to understand the environment (always with a scientific approach), to later describes its characteristics.
In primary school she developed she her disposition to help others, above all to who need support in Biology and English classes.
In her secondary school she participated in the “MAGIS” movement, which has as a motto “always more for the other”, and in a personal way the phrase is translated as “give the best version of yourself”. Manuela, as many professors described her, is always trying to give her best, either academically to personally.