She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation, which aims to promote peace by bringing together scientists from otherwise hostile countries to discuss science and foster international scientific and technical collaboration.

[2][3] She has been successful in preventing executions, releasing prisoners of conscience from jail and bringing dissidents to freedom.

[15][16] In 1977, she became the first science faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, an institution of higher education specializing in arts and media disciplines.

In 1986 she was named chair of the American Chemical Society's Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights.

[21] Among other activities, this group's mission included helping scientists who, for political reasons, were jailed, abused, and sentenced to execution.

[22][23] Attendees included six Nobel Laureates and scientists from 15 Middle Eastern Countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates).

[23] The conference included workshops to foster cross-border collaborations on air and water quality, science education for all, and green energy.