 Around 1963 she took a job in personnel at the mid-town Manhattan law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, where Pauli Murray, who graduated from Howard four years before her worked as a lawyer.Oden left the law firm to publish a magazine, "The Urbanite", meant to publish content in opposition to Ebony.When the magazine folded, she spent five years at the American Institute of Physics and then a year and a half at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.