Mrs. America 2014 Named Keynote at Churches Making Movies
Friday, October 7, 2016
The Ballroom
Embassy Suites, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Austen Williams has been modeling, acting, singing and dancing for 25 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, Prevention Magazine, K-Swiss, MTV, Vibe Magazine and Best Body Magazine. Some of her additional work includes multiple films, television shows, and over a dozen fitness videos. She also serves regularly as Co-Host for teen talk show, INsight, which can be seen in 18 million households 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.
"It's not about me, it's about HIM!"
Austen Williams
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 85,000 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, and serving 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, along with her INsight co-hosts, are traveling the country on the Beyond Beauty Tour, a national speaking tour encouraging young women to recognize media influence and be more than what media expects them to be, more than who people think they are, and all of who God createad them to be. She and her husband, Marcel, have two children, Marc and Michal (a girl).
Follow Austen on Twitter and Instagram: @austenwill