Ms. Young joined the Board in 2007. She is the CEO of the California Charter Schools Association, California's charter school membership and support association, which works to increase student achievement by supporting and expanding California's quality charter public school movement.
Ms. Young has a strong track record in education reform, having served from 1999-2003 as a member and president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, which represents the second largest school district in the United States. Her professional experience spans higher education, business and government, including: director of corporate and foundation relations for the Anderson School at UCLA; strategy consulting group manager of IBM's West Coast e-Business Innovations Design Center; and assistant deputy mayor for the City of Los Angeles. She also serves on numerous boards, including the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, among others. She earned her bachelor's degree from Yale University and an MPA from USC.