 From 1978 to 1989, Larraín was an academic in the field of aesthetics, teaching at Chile's Catholic universities, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación.From 1989 to 1993, she was a founding member and the director of the Chile ("Pacífico Sur") office of Greenpeace, and also worked with organizations like RENACE ("Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica", or the "National Network for Environmental Action") and organizations for the research of globalization.From 1997 to 2001 she served as the director of the Sustainable Chile Program ("Programa Chile Sustentable").