 From 1927 to 1932, she worked as a social worker, including at the Wardell Commission on Social Welfare and the Foster Home Bureau of Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.From 1929 to 1945, she served on the board of the Madison Settlement House and from 1930 to 1935, she served as a commissioner on the New York City Board of Child Welfare.In 1936, she became the first woman to work at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore but left after a year because of the impending birth of one of her children.