Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić was born in 1929 in Struga, a small town in western North Macedonia. Unlike many female architects at that time, Nestorova-Tomić had a supportive family that financed her education including the first three years of her studies in Belgrade, until she obtained a scholarship. After Nestorova-Tomić graduated from the Department of Architecture at the Technical College of Belgrade (Tehnički Fakultet u Beogradu) in 1953, the young architect returned to her family in North Macedonia and helped rebuild her country. She got a position as an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture at the Department of Housing in Belgrade, where she worked for twelve years. In year 1962 Nestorova-Tomić traveled with her husband, the architect Ljubomir Tomić, to the USA, visiting New York, Berkeley and Chicago. After the devastating earthquake that hit Skopje in 1963, Nestorova-Tomić helped to rebuild the city. Therefore in 1965, she transferred to the Urban Planning Institute of the City of Skopje, where she worked until her retirement. While Skopje became a site of international collaborations between architects from the Western and the Eastern bloc, Nestorova-Tomić lead the Macedonian team. Furthermore Nestorova-Tomić was involved in the work of the Department of Sociology at the Urban Planning Institute in Skopje. From 1986 until her retirement in 1989, Nestorova-Tomićoccupied held the position of director at the Institute for Urban Planning and Architecture in Skopje.