Austin is CEO and founder of Ethel’s Club, which is the first private social and wellness club supporting people of color. Ethel’s Club, which Austin founded in 2019, pays tribute to her grandmother Ethel Lucas. According to Ethel’s Club’s official website, “Ethel Lucas was a matriarch figure in a tight-knit Black community whose home offered warmth, laughter and care. Her belief in community as a practice lives on in her granddaughter.”
Ethel’s Club’s main focus is to “create healing spaces that center and celebrate people of color through conversation, wellness and creativity.”
