[2][3] Agee is a managing partner of the Semper Charitable Foundation[4] and CEO of the family's boutique wine business, Aurea Estate Wines, Inc.[citation needed] Agee is the founder of The Nurturing Network (TNN), an international charitable organization which throughout its 30 years of service has taught about the need for empowerment among the most disadvantaged in society.

Her mother moved her four children to Hanover, New Hampshire, where a relative, Monsignor William Nolan, a chaplain at Dartmouth College,[8][9] offered paternal support for the family.

The HBS dean referred to Cunningham as having the "best chance of being the first female graduate of the Business School to become chairman of a non-cosmetic company.

On graduation from Harvard Business School, she accepted a management position as executive assistant to the CEO of the Bendix Corporation, William Agee.

[10][10][16][19][20] Stanford University Business School made Cunningham's experience a case study in its course, "Power and Politics in Organizations".

[25] Mary Cunningham Agee founded The Nurturing Network following the death of her first child, Angela Grace, in a late trimester miscarriage in January 1984.

[5][26] That loss prompted Agee to investigate the availability of resources for women whose pregnancies end through abortion due to lack of economic, educational or social support.

Her work has been featured[29] in publications such as The Wall Street Journal,[27][30] Reader's Digest,[28]U.S. News & World Report,[31] The Washington Post,[32] and Good Housekeeping,[33][34][35] and she has been profiled on American radio and television programs such as CBS's 48 Hours,[36][full citation needed] and James Dobson's Focus on the Family.

[38][39][40] Peter Jennings referred to Ms. Agee's common ground position as "the demilitarized zone" in his televised three hour report, "The Next Civil War" on ABC News Forum.