February 1939 opens with notice that Austin would serve on a committee interracial "good will" meeting, and presenting at a YWCA in March. In April Austin was among those attending a Kentucky Negro Educational Association conference in Louisville, and in May she was among the Cincinnati Baháʼís that went to the Baháʼí national convention along with mother Mary Louise and brother George Austin, Jr., returning for a birth shower. and finishing her term as assistant attorney general, through which she had not seen much work in trials.