Austin Coleman is Member-at-Large of Reveal Inc.

Austin was born and raised in Columbia, where he attended Richland One schools and graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1991.  He attended college and graduated from USC Upstate in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and later earned his master’s in education from Cambridge College in Boston, Massachusetts.  Austin has enjoyed working in the schools he attended as a young man.

Throughout his career, he has been a teacher, coach, administrator, and school counselor.  He is currently a school counselor at Crayton Middle School, where, in addition to his counseling duties, he also oversees the Richland One Comprehensive Remediation After-School Program and the Richland One Summer Soar programs.  He is a proud father of his 18-year-old daughter, Alexandria or “Alex”, who will be attending Arcadia University in Philadelphia, PA, in the fall of 2026 on an academic and athletic scholarship to play volleyball.

Austin has a passion for working with kids in the community that raised him; he wants to contribute where he can make an impact. Where that is and what that looks like is up to the Lord.