Andrew J. Young has earned worldwide recognition as a pioneer in and champion of civil and human rights.

Young’s lifelong dedication to service is illustrated by his extensive leadership experience of over sixty-five years, serving as a member of Congress, African American U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta, and ordained minister, among other positions.

During the 1960s, Andrew Young was a key strategist and negotiator during Civil Rights
campaigns that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of
1965. Appointed as an Ambassador to the United Nations in 1977, Young negotiated an end to white-minority rule in Namibia and Zimbabwe and brought President Jimmy Carter’s emphasis on human rights to international diplomacy efforts.

Later, as two-term Mayor of Atlanta, Young brought in over 1,100 businesses, over 70 billion in
foreign direct investments, and generated over a million jobs. Young has received honorary degrees from more than 100 universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad and has received various awards, including an Emmy Lifetime Achievement award in 2011 and the Dan Sweat Award in 2017. His portrait also became part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Ambassador Young also serves on a number of boards, including, but not limited to, the Martin
Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Morehouse College, Andrew Young School
of Policy Studies at Georgia State and Americas Mart.

In 2003, he and his wife, Carolyn McClain Young, founded the Andrew J. Young Foundation to
support and promote education, health, leadership, and human rights in the U.S., Africa, and the
Caribbean. Young currently serves as the Chairman of the Andrew J. Young Foundation.
In 2012, Young retired from GoodWorks International, LLC, after well over a decade of
facilitating sustainable economic development in the business sectors of the Caribbean and
Africa.

Young was born in 1932 in New Orleans, and he currently lives in Atlanta with his wife, Carolyn
McClain, who serves as Vice Chair of the Andrew J. Young Foundation. He is also a father of
three daughters and one son, a grandfather of nine, and a great-grandfather of one.