In 1978, she testified at Congressional hearings on domestic violence and sexual assault. She was the author of "How to start a county-wide task force on family violence" (1980), a booklet for the American Friends Service Committee. In the 1980s she worked at the Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital as a mental health therapy aide, and in 1995 she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. In 2017, Bako spoke at "a reunion of second-wave feminists" held by the Veteran Feminists of America in New York.