She attended the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society's gathering in Des Moines, Iowa,[10] representing the organization's work in India and Burma.[2][3] The convention goers gave her a "book shower" of about 800 English-language volumes and magazine subscriptions to carry back to mission school students in Rangoon.[11] She served on the International Missionary Council when it met at Lake Mohonk, New York.[12] She pursued further studies in medicine at Johns Hopkins University.[13][14] She was said to be the first Burmese woman to "make a trip around the world".[15]