Austin Willacy is an organizer and facilitator for YES! YES! Jams help individual changemakers deepen their root system and grow in consciousness and self-care, so they can become more healthy and effective and restore balance and well-being. When there is congruency between our goals and how we work, we can generate more lasting and effective positive impact. He is a longstanding member of the North America Jam and one of the co-founders of the Black Diaspora Jam, the Men Raised as Men Jam, and the Arts for Social Change Jams in the US, Turkey, and India.

Austin is an award-winning musician with 4 CD’s and 2 EP’s to his name; he has produced 10 full-length albums and completed multiple world tours with vocal band The House Jacks. For the past 26 years, Austin has directed ‘Til Dawn, Youth in Arts’ award-winning teen a cappella group that empowers youth to find their voices in many different ways. Inspired by his youth work, the Apple Store in San Francisco brought him in to do an Apple Music Lab on Finding Your Creative Voice and Songwriting Basics on the iPad.  Austin even has a side career in soundalike singing voiceovers for games including Guitar Hero and Karaoke Revolution, he’s a renaissance man. But, who cares about all that? Because what really matters is what Bonnie Raitt told him: “You can really F*ckin’ sing!”