- She worked for several radio and television organizations and was women's television editor for Pathé News.
- In 1973, she received a Hillman Prize for the documentary What Price Health.
- She was producer for a 1988 Russian-American co-production of the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies.
- In 1957, she worked with Martha Rountree on a public affairs radio show based in Washington, D.C.
- In 1959, Jarvis joined NBC as an associate producer for The Nation's Future, a program where various topics were debated; in 1961, she became producer.
- While volunteering for the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training, she produced a documentary, Passport to Freedom.
- She was an American television producer.
- She was hired as a dietitian at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center but subsequently became food editor for McCall's magazine, leaving that position to raise two children.
- The 1964 documentary The Louvre: A Golden Prison received a Peabody Award, a Radio-TV Critics Award and six Emmy.
- Jarvis studied home economics and nutrition at Cornell University and was also president of the drama club.
- In 1990, Jarvis brought the Russian rock opera Juno and Avos to New York City.
- She formed her own production company which produced a number of films, including the television movie Family Reunion.
- In 1972, Jarvis signed her name to the Ms. campaign "We Have Had Abortions." The campaign called for an end to "archaic laws" limiting reproductive freedom, and encouraging women to share their stories and take action.
- In November 2017, Jarvis was presented with the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for her groundbreaking success in Media at the United Nations in New York City.
- Jarvis majored in nutrition, took classes in economics, public speaking and architecture, and was the president of the drama club.
- In 1968, Jarvis was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- Her 1963 documentary The Kremlin received an Emmy Award for cinematography.
- On June 23, 2012, Jarvis celebrated her 95th birthday at the Boathouse in New York City, with a festive hat garden party.
- Jarvis was working up to a few months before her death.
- In 1976, Jarvis left NBC to produce several Barbara Walters specials for ABC.
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