Joan Young is a practical, results-oriented and insightful professional with an innovative management style and more than twenty-three years experience in the non-profit sector. Prior to her non-profit work Young worked as a sales and marketing professional in the steel industry and with a statewide business and industry lobbyist organization, as well as a Communications teacher at the college level. She holds a M.A. in Communications and B.A. in English from Hunter College, City University of New York.

Highlights of Young’s fifteen year tenure as Chapter President of the Channel Islands
Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society include:

• 50% market expansion
• 25 fold increase in stakeholder involvement
• 500% revenue growth
• Revolutionary programmatic development and implementation
• Implementation of rigorous standards of excellence