Rahmawati teaches Indonesian language at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University as a Fulbright – Badan Bahasa Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Fellow.

She is an English teacher at Teuku Nyak Arif Fatih Bilingual High School in Banda Aceh. She has been teaching English for eight years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English education from Universitas Syiah Kuala Banda Aceh.