Who is conservative influencer Emily Austin? The sports journalist just met Trump at the Capitol – she’s also interviewed Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul, and collaborated with MTV

Mar 15 , 2025

Sports journalist, model, influencer and entrepreneur Emily Austin recently visited the Capitol. Photo: @emily.austin/Instagram

Emily Austin, who has more than 2 million followers on Instagram, was invited to the Capitol for Trump’s Congress speech – a move she lauded as ‘great’ and ‘empowering independent journalists’

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson recently opened the doors of the Capitol to a host of primarily conservative influencers before President Donald Trump’s Congress speech.

Around the same time, Democrats welcomed online creators to make promotional content. However, the move backfired when a TikTok video captioned “choose your fighter”, posted by Sulhee Jessica Woo, went viral for the wrong reasons.

The clip, which featured several Congresswomen, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, posing like video game characters while their accomplishments were listed on-screen, was dubbed “cringey” by netizens. Johnson added, “This next generation is so thirsty for authenticity, they just see all this performance stuff and it’s detestable to them and they want something that’s real,” per the Daily Mail.

One of the invited influencers who had the chance to interact with the Speaker after Trump’s address was 23-year-old Emily Austin. Describing the experience as “great”, Austin told the Daily Mail, “It’s been clear that this new administration is really keen on empowering independent journalists.”

So who is Emily Austin, who was once a media consultant for the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations? She is strongly supportive of Israel and in 2023 was deemed crucial to curbing antisemitism by Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post and by the philanthropic Ruderman Family Foundation. What else do we know about her?

What is Emily Austin’s background?

Emily Austin (second from left) was one of many conservative influencers invited to Washington recently. Photo: @emily.austin/Instagram

Austin hails from Brooklyn, New York, where she was born to Israeli parents, per The Sun. She was raised on Long Island and graduated from North Shore Hebrew Academy before studying journalism at Hofstra University, both nearby. Austin also attended Touro University, per her LinkedIn page, though it is unclear when. Her parents are secular Jews but she follows Jewish traditions, according to The Sun.