Dr. Orlova has more than twenty years of experience in higher education. She served as Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York and lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages for humanities at Petrozavodsk State University in Russia.
Dr. Orlova received her doctorate in Education from the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, her master’s in Education from the College of Saint Rose, and her bachelor's degree in History from Petrozavodsk State University in Russia.