She served as Chair of the committee of teachers and principals that framed and presented to Mayor William Russell Grace the petition asking for the appointment of women on the Board of Education.

She spoke in reply to President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he addressed the National Educational Association.

She compiled the first statistics showing the number of dark and badly lit rooms in public schools.

She was a member of the Special New York City Commission of the National Educational Association, and the Executive Committee of the Normal College Alumnae.

[4][5] Included in her suffragist activities she marched with hundreds of teachers in the 1915 New York parade sponsored by the Woman Suffrage Association.