[10] Her technologies have been applied in fields ranging from medical informatics,[11][12][13][14] cybersecurity, database interoperability,[15] cultural heritage institutions[16] and Digital Government.
[20] After leaving Columbia, she led the Text, Tags and Trust group at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
Early planning meetings for both the Grace Hopper Conference and the Institute were held at Klavans’ mother's home in Kalorama, Washington, D.C. from 1992–1994.
at Oberlin College, she completed a first master's degree at Boston University in Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
From 1970 to 1971, she lived on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where she worked on a literacy program for college bound high school students.