Grazia Farina teaches philosophy and history in a high school in Rome. She got her laurea with a dissertation on Locke's theory of knowledge, and revised the Italian translation of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. From 1990 to 1993 she was research assistant at Fondazione Cespe.

She is currently on leave for a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Roma Tre University. Her research deals with normative and descriptive accounts of rationality in theories of choice.