Biographie
Austen Williams has been modeling, acting, singing and dancing for nearly 30 years and had completed more than 40 regional and national jobs by the time she graduated from high school. Clients include Southern Weddings, Abercrombie and Fitch, Ford Motor Cars, Sony, American Airlines, Pfizer, Toyota, Prevention Magazine, K-Swiss, MTV, Vibe Magazine and Best Body Magazine, to name a few. Some of her additional work includes multiple films, television shows, and over a dozen fitness videos. She also served regularly as Co-Host for talk show, INsight, which was aired in 18 million homes on the UPLIFT and Parable Networks.
Austen won the title of Mrs. America 2014 and has since traveled across the US and abroad speaking on her platform, Shake the Shackles: Human Trafficking Awareness, engaging communities on ways to end modern day slavery. Austen is a Shared Hope International Ambassador of Hope, International Spokesperson and Committee Chair for The Jubilee Market, and has partnered with many more human trafficking organizations including the International Justice Mission, Traffick911, Safe House of Hope, Justice Speaks, The Samaritan Women, and Bridging Freedom, just to name a few. As a result of her work in the area of human trafficking, Austen became a recipient of the prestigious Phoenix Award, the highest honor given by the City of Atlanta, as well as being named Humanitarian of the Year 2014 by Viva Internationale Magazine.
In addition to her work as a Model, Entertainer, and Philanthropist, she has also been a Personal Development Instructor, a Stylist, a Modeling and Acting Coach, a Manager of a multi-million dollar fitness facility, a Business Owner, and an Inspirational Speaker to over 100,000 people. Austen has worked extensively as a Speaker with Eagle University, a youth leadership workshop, served on the Board of Directors for Project Nightlight, an abuse prevention organization, and was Director of the Girls Ministry at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas- in addition to all this, she also completed her Bachelors Degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
In her current season, Austen can be found managing full-time responsibilities as a wife and mother, while serving the Executive Director of The Culture Catalyst, a nonprofit organization that partners social innovators with development programs that get their passion projects to the people, and builds a collaborative network of Culture Catalysts who use their businesses and organizations to propel culture toward common good. She also serves as a Presenter and Head Modeling Consultant with 501c3, Actors, Models, and Talent for Christ, all the while continuing her work in ending human trafficking. Beyond that, she is traveling the country encouraging women to recognize media influence and be more than what media expects them to be, more than people think they should be, and become all of who God created them to be.
She and her husband, Marcel, have three children, Marc, a handsome dude, and two awesome little ladies, Michal and Marlowe.
