[1] Her work in the United Nations system and with various advocacy groups focused on the intersection of women's rights and development across the Caribbean.
[2][3][4] Through her studies at Leiden, she conducted research on women laborers in Latin America and the Caribbean, and on the role of Jews in the historical development of Curaçao.
[8][9] She was also a founding member of the Caribbean Network on Studies of Masculinities in 1997[10] and helped support the launching of the Annual Female Leadership Conferences in Curaçao in 2004.
[1] In part through Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), she was also involved in advocacy on reproductive rights.
[2] She was then assigned to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, working in Trinidad as a social affairs officer focusing on women and development.