In 1905, she traveled to Stockholm to attend what has been called the "First folk education course for Samis" (Samernas första folkbildningskurs), which was financed in part by politicians Carl and Anna Lindhagen.

: Det är vår vilja: En vädjan till Svenska Nationen från Samefolket (This Is Our Wish: An Appeal to the Swedish Nation from the Sami People).

The purpose of the document was to influence the 1919 Lapp Committee, which was investigating Sami rights and the conditions of reindeer herders.

[3] In the 1930s, Stenberg led a project to save Arvidsjaur's old Sami kyrkstad or lappstan (a group of cabins used when visiting a church overnight), which was threatened by road construction.

[2][4] In 1942, Stenberg and Reverend Gustav Park led an initiative to open the Sami Folk High School (Swedish: Samernas Folkhögskola), a folk high school for the Sami in Sorsele, Västerbotten County.