Throughout her time in Abra, Pura has served as a community organizer. Sumangil collaborated with the Itneg people in the late 1980s to assist in the reconstruction of war-torn communities in the uplands of northern Luzon. In 1986, she co-founded the Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Government (CCAGG), a civil society organization focused on government monitoring, empowerment, and citizenship building.
