[2] Her master's thesis was State Governmental Structure Affecting Enactment and Implementation of a Federal Program: A Case Study of Medicaid in Maryland.
[2] She also taught sex education classes at Patterson High School.
[1][2] Abrams represented Northwest Baltimore in the Maryland State Senate from 1970 until 1984.
[1] In 1983, she was appointed by Governor Harry Hughes as the director of the Maryland Office of Aging.
[2] Abrams died of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson, Maryland on February 27, 2009.