A community for ambitious and curious minds
In 1727 Benjamin Franklin and a group of friends founded the Junto Club (aka the Leather Apron Club). For 38 years, this group brought together friends of like minds - scholars, tradesmen, and intellectuals—for weekly discussions on morals, politics, and philosophy. These meetings sparked transformative projects like the first lending library, the first first volunteer fire department, the Pennsylvania Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania, and more. But most presciently for its members, it served as a community of personal growth and intellectual vitalism.
Inspired by Franklin, the Austin Junto is a space for Austin's curious, ambitious 20-somethings. We meet every other week to chat work, life, science, philosophy and more. If you want to meet friends who are as excited about their work, studies, and personal growth as you are - the junto is for you.