She was one of the early members of the Coordinating Council for Women in History and served as editor of its newsletter from 1975 to 1980; as executive secretary and treasurer from 1981 to 1987, and president from 1995 to 1998.
Chaudhuri drafted the guidelines to increase diversity and inclusion and eliminate racism and sexism for the National Women's Studies Association in 1979.
Her mother was a member of Mahila Samiti, a women's association, that was both active in charitable works and promoted non-violence and nationalism in the Indian independence movement.
Chaudhuri was elected as one of the coordinating council members of the caucus and she drafted guidelines, which from 1980 informed conference development for eliminating racism and sexism.
[15] During that time, Chaudhuri had difficulty securing a position in academia and was often invisible because of her race and gender, and status as an immigrant.
[17] The article which announced Chaudhuri's participation was titled Program Links to Idle History Minds and labeled her as a "faculty wife".
[17] A few days after the announcement, Joseph M. Hawes, the chair of the history department and director of the program, wrote to The Manhattan Mercury that the associates were neither idle nor inept, that all three were published in the field and that Chaudhuri was "especially distinguished", having earned a Newberry Fellowship, served as the editor of the CCWHP's newsletter, and was the current executive secretary of the national organization.
[22] In 1995, the CCWHP-CGWH changed its name to the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH), uniting both the lobbying efforts and academic goals of the group.
[29] In 2020, she presented a memoir,"Just Because Your Husband or Dad Has a Ph.D., We Have to Give You a Ph.D": An Indian Woman’s Journey towards the Ph.D. at the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting as part of a series the group commissioned to document women's status in the historical profession.