Active in organizational work, in 1906 she founded and chaired Foreningen af Husholdningslærerinder og -lærere (FHL), an association for home economics teachers, and in 1909 brought together delegates from the Nordic countries to the first collaborative meeting on household interests.

[4] In 1892, she was a summer student at Askov Højskole where she participated in Jenny la Cour's textile courses.

In July 1911, she married the teacher training college principal Peter Dam (1853–1918) with whom she had already had a child, Margaret (1900).

[1] Together with the cook Eline Friksen as co-principal, she applied for state funding which led to an annual grant.

Back in Denmark, she introduced itinerant courses which proved so successful that the authorities encouraged her to found a teacher training college.

Active in organizational work, in 1906 she founded and chaired Foreningen af Husholdningslærerinder og -lærere (FHL), an association for home economics teachers, and in 1909 brought together delegates from the Nordic countries to the first collaborative meeting on household interests.