Ariani teaches Indonesian language at the University of Michigan as a Fulbright – Badan Bahasa Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Fellow.

She is an assistant lecturer in the English department at Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing (STIBA) Saraswati, Denpasar, Bali. She has been teaching English for four years. Ariani earned her bachelor’s degree in English from STIBA Saraswati in English, and her master’s degree in applied linguistics (translation studies) from Universitas Udayana.