Austin was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1960, and then was back in north-west Africa, this time in the then named British Cameroons, for the convention to elect the regional national assembly of north west Africa again and was elected. There there was a link made, and she was hired for the United States Information Agency as a cultural attaché, for in 1961 a news bit mentioned she was in Nigeria, and expecting visitors in the fall. She was a teacher living in Lagos. She returned, and while in DC participated in a commemoration of the visit of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to DC, visiting kin in Ohio and further training in the summer of 1962. She was described as having served as a "women's affairs officer" and had been to Liberia, Ghana, and Togo. She managed a visit with Delta sisters in October. As a member of a national assembly, Austin helped elect the first Universal House of Justice in April 1963. She returned to Nigeria. In 1964 Austin was alternate to Gladys Avery Tillett for Lomé seminar, then cultural affairs officer of Lagos, Nigeria. Austin was returned in the summer of 1965 to Ohio,