[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in history at Skidmore College, with further studies at Columbia University.
Konheim served as communications director for Mayor John Lindsay's Department of Air Resources from 1967 to 1971.
[6] She ran the New York Scientists Committee for Public Information, providing scientific and economic talking points on environmental issues.
[8][10] In the 1980s, she was a consultant in support of a trash incinerator projects in Brooklyn, Pennsauken,[11] Kenosha,[12] and other sites,[13] reporting that harmful by-products like dioxin could be handled with the right technology, regulation, and oversight.
[14][15] In the 1990s, Konheim was president of Women for Affirmative Action, a lobbying organization representing over four thousand woman-owned businesses in the New York metropolitan area.