Since settling in Takoma Park with her family in 1995 Doris has been a resolute advocate for youth and in 2015 became assistant director of Takoma Park Lunch and Learn. Highly respected as a mentor in the District of Columbia summer youth programs and as an organizer of the Think Tank homework program in Takoma Park, she also arranges food deliveries to the less fortunate, particularly at Hampshire Tower, where she is president of the Tower Tenants Association.
Doris is the site coordinator for the Educare Food Pantry, Kokus Foods (Small Things Matter), the Greater Washington Adventist Community Services food distribution and Difference Makers. She serves on two Takoma Foundation committees, including the Racial Equity Working Group. For her volunteer work she has been recognized with an Azalea Award, a Martin Luther King Unsung Hero Award and other tributes.