 In 1970, she started her communications firm and ghost wrote a weekly column for her first client, black activist and businessman Warren Jackson, which appeared in The Westchester-Rockland News".About the same time, she became one of the founders of the local chapter of the National Organization for Women.Elected as president of the Westchester chapter of NOW, she served until 1973, while simultaneously editing the newsletter for the National chapter of NOW, "Do it NOW".