On this journey, she represented the Women's Lawyers Association and worked as a reporter for Century Magazine and a special correspondent for the New York The Evening Post.
On her return to the U.S. in 1917, Doty became an editor with her friend Crystal Eastman of Four Lights, the radical paper of the New York Woman's Peace Party.
In a letter on January 13, 1917, to Dr. Maria Montessori, Fannie May Witherspoon, a Christian socialist and another co-editor of Four Lights, described the purpose of the paper as "striking what seems to us a much-needed note of internationalism in these days of universal warfare and national strife ... the contributors will be chiefly women, and the issues of feminism and peace will naturally go hand in hand.
"[6] Reporting war news from a feminist and pacifist lens, it published articles featuring a "gender-based critique of American society and democracy.
In 1936, foreseeing the collapse of the League, Doty decided that the only way to secure world peace was through education of the young.
After the war she returned to the U.S. and between 1946 and 1949 she organized and ran another Geneva Junior Year Abroad program for Smith College.
[13] Doty retained her maiden name, had an active public career, supported herself financially, and employed a domestic servant to manage the reproduction of the household.