Lea Garcia holds a BA degree in Intercultural Management and Communication from Karlshochschule International University (Karlsruhe) and an MA degree in Transcultural Studies/Cultural Anthropology from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University (Bonn). Furthermore, she studied Linguistics and Eastern European Studies at the University of Hamburg and visited courses at Vilnius University, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Xi’an Eurasia University through various exchange programs. Since April 2024 she is a PhD candidate in the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”, by the universities Greifswald, Tartu and Trondheim, studying narrative representations of the Soviet past in Lithuanian museum exhibitions.