Emily Austin

Emily Austin serves as National Director of StandWithUs Campus, the college campus division of the StandWithUs pro-Israel educational organization founded by Roz Rothstein (Rank 46), and has been one of the leading figures in building the infrastructure for pro-Israel student organizing on American university campuses during the most challenging period for Jewish and pro-Israel students in modern American higher education history. Her work has focused on training student leaders, developing curricula and response toolkits for campus environments, and supporting students facing organized anti-Israel campaigns.

StandWithUs Campus operates at hundreds of colleges and universities across the country and internationally, providing students with the educational background, organizational support, and strategic guidance to counter campaigns by Students for Justice in Palestine and similar organizations that have become more organized and more aggressive in the post-October 7 environment. Austin's role involves both the operational management of that network and its strategic development — identifying which campuses require the most intensive support, deploying speakers and resources, and building the fellowship pipeline that produces the next generation of trained pro-Israel campus activists.

The campus battleground for pro-Israel advocacy has become the most consequential for the long-term American public opinion environment: the students who are forming their views on Israel in college today will be the donors, voters, and policymakers of the next generation. Organizations that can win the campus argument — not merely survive it — are investing in the future of American public opinion on Israel. Austin's work at StandWithUs Campus is therefore not merely defensive but formative. At Rank 80, Austin represents the campus advocacy professional whose organizational work in the most hostile institutional environment in American pro-Israel advocacy will shape the movement's future constituency.