[2] Hill graduated from Vassar College in 1906 and taught high school French in Washington, D.C. She became involved with the D.C.

Branch of the College Equal Suffrage League in 1913 along with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and joined the organization's leadership committee in 1914.

She was a strong supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote across the U.S. in 1920.

[3][7] Alice Paul sent Hill on public tours to campaign in favor of women's suffrage in 1916.

In 1924, Hill and other members of the Party visited President Calvin Coolidge to lobby on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment.