Fríða is a preschool teacher with M.Ed. In Multicultural Education, working as a director of the Centre for Educational Innovation at the Department of Education and Youth in Reykjavik. From 2008-2018 she worked as a project director and consultant for multicultural preschool education in Reykjavík. For the past 10 years she has been a guest lecturer at the University of Iceland/ School of Education and has been participating in research on multicultural and multilingual early childhood education.