She was the first Ecuadorean woman student to hold the degree of Ph.D. from an American university, and she was awarded it at the age of twenty-four.

While at Columbia, she studied under Professors Shepherd, Dunning, Hazen, Schuyler, Kendrick, Johnson and Giddings.

[4] Flores was active as Chairman of the Hispanic American Bureau of the Intercollegiate Cosmopolitan Club.

"Isn't it better for Ecuador that three of us be trained as educators than that I go back immediately and alone attempt to bring the ways of North America to my countrywomen?

It is my fondest dream to help arouse the women of all South America —not just of Ecuador—to take their part in the political and social life of their countries."