In 1899 he moved to the USA with his family, settled in Worcester, and graduated with honours from high school. In 1914 he graduated from the University of Geneva. From 1914 to 1920 he edited the weekly newspaper "American Lithuanian".
In response to President Antanas Smetona's appeal to foreign Lithuanians on 2 November 1919, she returned to Lithuania in 1920. Until 1940, she worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) as a translator, cryptographer, secret archive manager, confidential secretary of the MFA, head of the Lithuanian Telegram Agency (ELTA) from 1924-1926, head of the Press Bureau from 1926, and later director of the Press and Information Department. In June 1924, she represented Lithuania at the International Conference of Telegraph Agencies in Bern (Switzerland) and was the only woman among the representatives of 22 countries.
She belonged to the Lithuanian History, XXVII Book Amateurs and Lithuanian Cannoneers' Societies, and she had accumulated a rich library. 1933-1947 Head of the foreign section of the Lithuanian Scout Association. In 1937, at the Paris World Exhibition "The Place of Art and Technology in the Modern World", she was the chairman of the committee to prepare the Lithuanian pavilion, and in 1939 she was the general commissioner of the Lithuanian pavilion of the New York World Exhibition "World of Tomorrow". Thanks to her, the selection of the exhibits was extremely professional. On 17 June 1940, when the puppet government of Justas Paleckis began to work, she and her colleague Elena Barščiauskaitė took secret files out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed them over to the head of the Lithuanian Archives, Father Juozaps Stakauskas. He contributed to the preservation of Lithuania's gold reserves in the USA. From 1940 to 1944 he taught English at Vilnius University. During the Nazi occupation, he was a contributor to the newspaper "Į laisvę" (To Freedom).
In mid-summer of 1944, as the war front approached, he left Lithuania. Until 1947, she lived in a war refugee camp in Germany and worked as the secretary general of the Lithuanian Red Cross, which operated abroad. In 1947, invited by the wife of diplomat Petras Klimas, she settled in Paris, and in 1949 left for the USA.
1949-1952 she worked at the University of Detroit Mercy Library, and from 1952-1953 she taught sociology at Annhurst College. She was a member of the Political Commission of the VLIK and translated all its documents into English. Until her retirement, she worked at the Manhattanville St. John's Church in Manhattanville. After retiring from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, she worked as a consultant librarian. Later, she lived in a nursing home in Putnam run by the Sisters of St. Casimir, managed the libraries of the monastery and the ALKA from 1964, and financially supported Lithuanian organizations. She was buried in the Putnam monastery cemetery.
Wrote books and textbooks on historical topics. For her services to Lithuania, she was honoured with Lithuanian and foreign awards, including the Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania, 3rd degree, and the French Legion of Honour, 4th degree
