While raising four sons and being active in her community, Manny has served as:

• Quadrilingual secretary for Franco-Belgian Trading Co. NYC
• Board member Wilder Cooperative Nursery School, PTA, Frederick Law Olmsted Society,
  Friends of the Library
• Drawing Teacher in Riverside Summer School program
• Taught a cultural arts program at Riverside Elementary School for ten years as a volunteer
• Substitute teacher First Grade Elementary School, Maria Montessori School, Yoga and Excecise Classes
• Initiated reforestation of landscape in Riverside, IL, a village on the National Registry of Historic Places
• Initiated teaching program for Enrichment Classes at Central School, Riverside, IL
• Taught Bread Sculpting and Bread Baking
• Research assistant at the Dept. of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Translated for the Art Institute of Chicago and private clients, a.o. Stanley Tigerman and Anthony Alofsin
• Interviewed architect Edward Humrich for the Oral History Program
• Compiled the bibliography for Chicago Architecture 1872-1922 with the assistance of two interns
• Involved with cataloguing the Chicago Architectural Club Exhibits and studied all three versions of Marion Mahony’s manuscript The Magic of America, re-collating illustrations and text
• Oriental Rugs: consulting, selling, buying, appraising, lecturing
• Designed furniture and furnishings for several homes, including the Tomek House,
  Coonley House, Coonley Playhouse, Purcell & Elmslie’s Bradley House, John Thorpe’s John van Bergen’s house and others
• Wrote, sewed and illustrated 20 books for her sons and grandchildren, yet to be published