After a career in academia focused on Kindergarten education, she became an official in the United States Department of Agriculture, addressing the needs of rural women as Eastern Division head of the USDA's Office of Cooperative Extension Work.

[4] In 1914 she was chair of the National Kindergarten Association, and traveled in Europe to study school conditions abroad.

[8] She was head of the Eastern Division of the Office of Cooperative Extension Work, a program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

[10][11] She gave lectures on her work at conferences[12][13] and on national radio broadcasts, including "New Social Horizons of the Farm Woman" (1929).

She died from double pneumonia in 1934, at the age of 62, at Garfield Hospital in Washington, D.C., shortly after attending the dedication of a memorial to Martha Van Rensselaer at Cornell University.