Austin Havass

Florida native Austin Havass is a first-year graduate student in Communication Studies at FAU. Havass started the graduate program after finishing his bachelor studies in Multimedia Studies, with a minor in Spanish, from SCMS in Spring of 2021. His interests include aspects of pedagogy, cultural communication, and educational leadership. As an undergraduate, Havass was a member of the Sigma Delta Pi Honors Society. He is also among the co-founders of the Latinx Student Union, founded in Spring of 2021. He recently spoke at the 20th Annual Tri-University Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean, where he presented an analysis on how “the Latinx community defied U.S.-based odds and combatted negative tropes embedded inside cultural constructs.” As a graduate teaching assistant, Havass currently teaches public speaking courses and plans to further his studies in the field of education.