As a national authority in playground work, as one of the two women to be recognized by California Governor William D. Stephens when he named the state council of defense; as trustee of Mills College and sponsor of its building program; as director in public health work, Moore was for many years a recognized leader on the Pacific coast.

[3] Moore graduated from Oakland High School, later attending the University of California for two years before she entered Vassar College.

[1] Simultaneously, among her friends and neighbors, Moore became the first president of the Home Club, original in its planning for a more cordial and democratic social intercourse of family and community.

These soon were notable from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific as touching the lives of children and parents in a more helpful manner than any other system in the country in that era.

[1] Moore was elected trustee of Mills College in 1915,[2] and was instrumental in accomplishing the appointment of Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt as president.

[1] She served on the Local Section of May Wright Sewall's Home Advisory Board in preparation for the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, held in San Francisco in July, 1915.

[1][2] Realizing that problems of health need more than recreational measures, she became one of the founders of the Alameda County Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis on whose board she served for 12 years.