 At age 19 she began studying high school at a distance.In 2002 she graduated as a Doctor in Jurisprudence at the Central University of Ecuador and in 2007 she received the master's degree in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences

Tibán was born in Salcedo Canton in 1969.She has a 2002 doctorate in Jurisprudence from the Central University of Ecuador and a master's degree in Social Sciences from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute which she passed in 2007.