According to the NYTimes, she was living in New York City and went back to Hawaii the last few months of her life.
She was a very, very big thinker, said Nancy Barry, a former president of Womens World Banking, an international network of microfinance providers, where Ms. Soetoro worked in New York City in the early 1990s. I think she was not at all personally ambitious, I think she cared about the core issues, and I think she was not afraid to speak truth to power.