She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she organized social and political activities,[4] and later, through the Sierra Club, became an environmental activist.
Working with the Ralph Nader Center for Study of Responsive Law, she advocated for consumer rights.
[1] At 40, she became involved with the Gray Panthers, an intergenerational advocacy group which focused on age related inequity and injustice, and helped to establish eight Los Angeles chapters as a network leader.
In 1971, she led a Gray Panthers protest at the US Consumer Affairs office, and in 1973 testified before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging.
[7] In 2009, she received a Global Women's Rights Award from the Feminist Majority Foundation to honor her 30 years of work towards its ratification.