As a Community College Initiative (CCI) participant, Tiopan Sinurat is studying early childhood education at Northampton Community College.

She is a teacher at Taman Kanak-Kanak (TK) BINUS, a kindergarten in Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra.

She earned her D3 degree in informatics management from Akademi Informatika dan Komputer (AMIK) Medicom, Medan.