She visited the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University and Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University. Here she researched union records, oral histories, photographs, propaganda, and memorabilia to inform the mobilization tactics of  around 20,000 Asian American women who facilitated one of the largest Asian American strikes in history. 

In Maggie's words: As I've entered my last few years of college, I have been thinking heavily about what I wanted to do with my love for history. This was the first time I got to pursue solo archival research, and it was an incredibly enlightening experience. You can hear about other people's experiences again and again, but until you have the chance to pursue it yourself with a topic you are passionate about you truly won't know if you love it. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to go, it really solidified in my mind that archival research is what I want to pursue.