Raised in California and NYC, Auguste Swanger is a junior at Hunter College High School with a passion for social justice and all forms of the arts. He is the founder and president of Caring for Change, a club dedicated to providing annual care packages to people experiencing homelessness, Editor in Chief of his school’s fashion magazine Hawk Couture, Co-President of his school’s Christian Youth Fellowship, Undersecretary of Digital Recruitment for his school’s Model UN team, and a writer for eight different school publications. He loves the beauty of art and its ability to convey emotions and nuance. He is especially inspired by the lightheartedness and delicacy of Rococo art, especially the works of Fragonard and Boucher. In his free time, he loves writing poetry, baking, reading, learning new languages, and running.