She has been featured on C-SPAN, CNN,[2] The Morning Call,[3] the Los Angeles Times,[4] PBS,[5] The Baltimore Sun,[6] and The Washington Post regarding her areas of focus.

[8] I think as a nation, we have a very deep-seated ambivalence, even a hostility toward power in the hands of women... Mayo earned her degree in American History from George Washington University.

[8] In 1995, she wrote the foreword for Doris Stevens's book Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote.

[11] Mayo curated Rights for Women at the World Financial Center in 1998 and The Pleasure of Your Company at the Museum of Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

In March 2015, the Fairfax County, Virginia Board of Supervisors named her an honoree for her work at the Smithsonian.