She has held leadership roles in professional bar organizations including: the NY State Bar, the NY State Women's Bar, the International Law section of the American Bar Association, the UIA. She has organized numerous events at UN fora as well as at national and local levels on global issues of pressing concern including conducting the first legal education program in NY City and NY State on the topic of human trafficking. As a UN staff member in NY Headquarters, she worked on issues to reform the internal system