Austin Laster

Hi! I'm a Stanford Law grad and coach admissions for law school, masters, and MBA programs, as well as fellowship programs like Rhodes, Knight-Hennessy, and Schwarzman. More importantly, I'm also a first-generation immigrant from Uzbekistan and have been incredibly lucky to have lived out my dreams in some cool places since then. A metro Atlanta, Georgia native, I played baseball at Oberlin College, where I picked up the political bug and earned a Truman Scholarship for leadership in public service. After graduating, I was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and read for an MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. I then worked for four years in a variety of political and public policy-focused roles, including on the Biden 2020 campaign's policy team and at the White House as part of the COVID Response team. Most recently I graduated from Stanford Law School (and previously dropped out of the MBA program at GSB - ask me about it!) as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and spent time as