In 1992, she received the association's highest award, the Alexander Gode medal.
She headed the US delegation to the Statutory Congress of the International Translation Federation in 1990.
She lived in Colombia from 1964 to 1967, first as a member of the Peace Corps and later as an English instructor at the Industrial University of Santander.
She became a volunteer for Senator Henry M. Jackson in 1974, and she taught English as a Second Language for Northern Virginia Community College from 1974 to 1977.
She organized conferences for the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas and wrote articles for publications such as the Congressional Record, the Modern Language Journal, the Annals of Political Science, and the Chronicle of the American Translators Association.