 She was vice-chair of the Japanese delegation to the first Pan-Pacific Women's Congress in Hawaii in 1928, and spoke on work against human trafficking.She and Utako Hayashi presented a peace petition to British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald at the London Naval Conference in 1930, and she spoke about her London experiences in San Francisco later that year.Gauntlett returned to Hawaii for another Pan-Pacific Women's Congress in 1935.