Who is Emily Austin? Meet DAZN boxing presenter and influencer who has judged Miss Universe

EMILY Austin has achieved a large woody successful her constricted clip connected the planet.

She's a apical sports journalist, has amassed millions of online fans, judged Miss Universe and built her ain quality empire, each by the property of 23 — here's everything you request to cognize her.

Who is Emily Austin?

Emily Austin is simply a multitalented American sports presenter, journalist, social media influencer, model and entrepreneur.

She came to prominence successful the sports media manufacture — peculiarly her sum of basketball and boxing.

Early beingness and education

Emily was calved connected May 24, 2001, successful Brooklyn, New York, to Israeli parents.

She grew up connected Long Island and attended North Shore Hebrew Academy for precocious school, graduating successful 2019, earlier enrolling astatine Hofstra University to survey journalism.

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Despite her parents being secular Jews, Austin chose to clasp Jewish traditions from a young age, keeping kosher and observing Shabbat.

Career successful sports journalism

Emily’s travel successful sports journalism began successful 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic erstwhile she was an 18-year-old sophomore astatine Hofstra University. 

She started by reaching retired to nonrecreational athletes for interviews connected Instagram, creating her vlog amusement Daily Vibes with Emily Austin.

This yet led to opportunities with MTV and Sports Illustrated, wherever she hosted NFL and boxing events.

In 2023, Emily launched NBA podcast The Hoop Chat with Emily Austin, which features interviews with salient players.

Her enactment successful sports broadcasting expanded to boxing erstwhile she began collaborating with DAZN connected their boxing sum successful April 2024, covering large events similar the Terence Crawford vs Israil Madrimov fight.

Famous sportspeople she’s interviewed

During her awesome career, Emily has spoken with immoderate of the apical names successful the worlds of boxing and basketball.

Boxing:

• Anthony Joshua - heavyweight champion
• Deontay Wilder - erstwhile heavyweight champion
• Terence Crawford - four-weight satellite champion
• Devin Haney - two-weight satellite champion
• Dmitry Bivol - light-heavyweight satellite champion
• Eddie Hearn - boxing promoter
• Artur Beterbiev - light-heavyweight satellite champion
• Jake Paul - YouTuber turned boxer
• Vergil Ortiz Jr - nonrecreational boxer
• Callum Smith - erstwhile super-middleweight satellite champion
• Mauricio Sulaiman - president of the World Boxing Council (WBC)

Basketball

• Shareef O'Neal - hoops player, lad of NBA fable Shaquille O'Neal
• Scotty Pippen Jr - NBA player, lad of NBA fable Scottie Pippen
• Josh Giddey - NBA subordinate for the Oklahoma City Thunder
• Jalen Brunson - NBA subordinate for the New York Knicks
• Mitchell Robinson - NBA subordinate for the New York Knicks
• Enes Kanter - erstwhile NBA subordinate who played for teams including the Boston Celtics
• Ben McLemore - NBA subordinate who played for teams including the Houston Rockets
• Chet Holmgren - NBA subordinate for the Oklahoma City Thunder
• Grant Williams - NBA subordinate for the Dallas Mavericks
• Immanuel Quickley - NBA subordinate for the New York Knicks

Other nonrecreational endeavours

When she was 17, Emily competed successful the Miss New York Teen USA pageant, believing she would assistance the crown, but didn't spot precise high.

The acquisition came afloat ellipse erstwhile she was selected to beryllium portion of the 2023 Miss Universe judging panel.

Speaking exclusively with The US Sun, Emily said: ''When I was 17, I would archer everyone it's rigged, and past erstwhile they invited maine to beryllium the judge, I was like, 'Wow, present I'm gonna find out'.

''There is nary cheating. It is arsenic cleanable arsenic it gets.''

Emily has turned her manus to media consulting — she joined the Israeli ngo to the United Nations, handling English communications and nationalist relations.

She’s a writer arsenic well, contributing to articles successful publications similar Newsweek, and has also featured arsenic a panelist connected Fox News programs.

Entrepreneurship

As if that’s not enough, Emily is besides an entrepreneur — becoming the CEO of People's Beauty, her ain skincare company.

Originally soft-launched successful May 2021, Emily took complaint of the institution up of the brand's relaunch successful April 2023.

She told us: “No 1 was investing the close selling and PR into pushing the brand.”

All of the products travel successful recyclable packaging and are vegan, cruelty-free, non-toxic, arsenic good arsenic being escaped of parabens, sulfates, phthalates, silicone, dyes, and fragrances.

She is besides trying to interruption the communicative that skincare is lone for women with her scope of gender-neutral products.

"People’s Beauty is simply a enactment of caller air,” she said. "If I’m going to put successful this, past I’m giving it my all.”

Emily added: "One of the champion things that I'm arrogant of is however affordable it is to get a period and a half’s worthy of skincare."

Social media power and activism

Emily has amassed an tremendous social media following, with implicit 2.4million followers connected Instagram alone.

She uses her level not lone for sports coverage, but besides for advocacy work, peculiarly successful combating antisemitism and supporting Israel.

Following the October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel, Emily became much vocal astir these issues, adjacent visiting confederate Israeli borderline communities successful December 2023.

Recent enactment and recognition

As of September 2024, Emily’s vocation continues to flourish.

She was appointed arsenic the societal media newsman for DAZN Boxing successful August 2024.

In March 2024, she besides became president of the Abrahamic Athletic Academy.

The Jerusalem Post and the Ruderman Family Foundation recognised Austin arsenic 1 of the cardinal figures successful combating antisemitism successful 2023.