In 1974 it was remembered Austin was among the national assembly members who decided to pioneer. In early May 1975 Austin was in Cincinnati for the Optimist Welfare Club, and in later May Austin chaired the Baháʼí delegation to the International Women's Conference in Mexico City. In later November Austin was a keynote address at Texas A&M for a talk: "Women and the crisis frontiers: development, justice and peace". At the time Austin was working for the Domestic Education Assistance Program of the Phelps Stokes Fund. She wrote a biography of Matthew Bullock published late in 1975. Austin also released an anecdote of Gregory's life for a children's book in 1976, and reported on an October 1977 international conference of the Baháʼís held in Nairobi, Kenya.