[4][5] Later in 1918 she went to France to work with the Red Cross in the care of American soldiers blinded in World War I.

[7][8][9] In the 1920s and 1930s she was associate director of the American Foundation for the Blind, based in New York.

[10][11] As AFB field representative,[12][13] she toured in the United States speaking to community groups and raising funds.

[10][12] Rand also made advance arrangements and accompanied some of Helen Keller's speaking engagements in the 1930s.

[17][18] Rand and Keller met as early as 1908, when Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy visited a handicraft shop in Manchester, Massachusetts, run by the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, Rand was also on hand, as a commission superintendent.