[1][2] In 1991, she was appointed as president and chief executive officer of the Second Harvest national food bank network in Chicago, Illinois, and continued in that role until 1998, when she was elected as prioress of her religious community.
[1] After completing her term as prioress of her order in 2010, Vladimiroff was appointed as the executive director of St. Benedict Education Center, which offered language instruction and job training to refugees and others in need of assistance.
Their actions generated "worldwide headlines and more than 1,000 letters and emails from across the globe," the majority of which "hailed the women as symbols of conscience against the Vatican's escalating moves to control dissent.
"[3][4] The announcement followed months of prayer vigils, periods of fasting, and meetings that Vladimiroff held with the members of her order to debate the directive that had been issued in March of that year by a department in the Vatican that was responsible for oversight of religious communities across the globe.
Vladimiroff had also even traveled to Rome in May, "accompanied by two Benedictine experts in canon law, to argue that Chittister's appearance would not flout rules against 'teaching against the authority of the pope,'" but was unsuccessful in convincing Vatican officials to reverse their decision.