Assistant Lecturer

Education:

BA, American History, City College of New York, 1965
MPA, New York University, 1968
MA, Education, University of Akron, 1969

Mr. Austin is a former VISTA on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation;
a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare; a special assistant to the President of the American Heart Association, a former social studies and special
education teacher, a former Assistant to the Superintendent of a correctional facility and a former Chief of Staff to Lt. Governor Richard F. Celeste.

For the past 30 years, he has been President of Gerald J. Austin & Associates, Inc,
a political consulting and marketing firm.

Clients: President Jimmy Carter, Senator Paul Wellstone, Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Senator Paul Tsongas, Governor Richard F. Celeste, Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Attorney General Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of State Sherrod Brown, Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow, Cong. Marcy Kaptur, Cong. Tom Sawyer, Cong. Ted Strickland, Cong. Sherrod Brown, President of the Cook County Board John Stroger, County Commissioner Mary Boyle, County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy, County Commissioner Paula Brooks, County Commissioner and Mayor Jane Campbell, County Prosecutor Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Rev. Jesse Jackson, MSZP Party of Hungary, Koka Janos, Minister of Economy and Transport in Hungary, American Electric Power, Dayton Power & Light and Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Austin served as a member of the International Delegation to witness the Acquino/Marcos election in the Philippines and the Pinochet Plebiscite in Chile.

Mr. Austin and a panel of distinguished journalists discuss election results.