Austin Duncan

Austin is a first-generation college student and a Black gay man from Atlanta. Austin attended his first two years of high school at Stilwell School of the Arts, a performing arts magnet school on the south side of Atlanta, where he volunteered as a set designer for plays and was active in the Stilwell Art Club.

At the height of the pandemic, he relocated to Mississippi to care for his grandfather, and as such, transferred to Choctaw County High School (CCHS) in Ackerman, Mississippi. In addition to being the president and founder of the CCHS Art Club (a student-led organization that hosts visual arts-related events and activities) he is also a reporter for the CCHS National Future Farmers of America Organization chapter.

An avid member of the Metro Atlanta community, Austin has volunteered for a variety of organizations, including the AID Atlanta Pride 5K, The Whitehall Terrace Community Garden, The Jimmy Carter Center Farmer Market.

Austin will be studying at a community college connected to Georgia State University in the fall of 2023 in pursuit of a career in Urban and Regional Transportation Planning. He hopes to create more civic engagement around the importance of public transit and how it can both eliminate wealth disparity and create access to employment, education, and public health.