"[1][2][3][4][5] She was instrumental in bringing together writings from Asians in America, most notably in the work Counterpoint (1978).

[6] Gee taught some of the earliest classes in Asian American studies at Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles.

[7] Gee is also an advocate of Asian American women and urged them to write and share prose and poetry.

[7][8][9] She was later also involved in the Pacific Asian American Women Writers West, established in 1978.

[10] In 2004, UCLA's Asian American Studies Center created the "Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee Endowment for Social Justice and Immigration Studies" in honor of Ichioka and Gee's work.