She is Founder of Pathways To Peace (PTP), an international peacebuilding, educational and consulting organisation. PTP has Consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is an official Peace Messenger of the United Nations (UN). PTP is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation.

Avon is also a Partner in the consulting proprietorship, Pathways Consulting. She is originator of Creative/Integrative Decision-Making(sm) in 1961, a process applied to the purpose, principles and organising strategies in the diverse fields of individual, corporate, institutional and governmental life.

A U.S. Foreign Service diplomat for three years serving the European Community, Avon was also former special advisor to the White House Conference on Small Business. Avon is a Summa Cum Laude graduate in political science and international communications, University of Maryland and George Washington University. She's listed in "Who's Who in Business and Finance", and Strathmore's "Who's Who Registry of Business Leaders."

She serves as a Creative Member of The Club of Budapest, a Findhorn Fellow, and serves on the Advisory Councils/Boards of several international organisations, including: the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, the Center For Visionary Leadership, Ehama Institute, Foundation for the Healing Among Nations, Global Youth Action Network, Radio For Peace International, The Peace Company, World Peace Prayer Society, the World Centers of Compassion for Children, and the World Fund for the Dignity of Children.

Through Pathways To Peace, Avon inaugurated an ongoing Rights of the Child Caucus within the UN system during the first preparatory conference for the World Summit on Social Development. Also through PTP, she inaugurated a five-year Inquiry on "WE THE PEOPLES" INITIATIVE: Peacebuilding For The 21st Century which was co-sponsored as a co-operative Inquiry internationally.