[1][2] Carroll was general secretary of the university YWCA in Lawrence, Kansas as a young woman.

[1][3] She taught economics at Goucher College in the 1920s,[4] and was an organizer of the Business and Professional Woman's Club in Baltimore.

[8] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927 to study the system of unemployment insurance in Germany.

[13] In 1931 she addressed the statewide conference of the Iowa Federation Business and Professional Woman's Clubs.

[2] She was director of research at the Workers' Education Bureau of the American Federation of Labor in 1937.