Previously, she was a principal in Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. She has a 17-year background in affordable housing, economic and community development, and is experienced in financing a wide variety of housing projects, as an attorney, lender and head of a financial intermediary. She has extensive experience in real estate development—as a transactions attorney and community development practitioner—and has extensive experience in closing complex multi-layered financing and real estate development transactions for community-based projects. She has been a visiting lecturer in law at the Yale Law School Clinic on Housing and Community Development. Prior to joining Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C., she served as the executive director and chief operating officer of the Community Health Center Capital Corporation in Washington, D.C., and was assistant vice president in the Community Development Lending Group at American Security Bank in Washington, D.C.
She is the chairperson of the board of commissioners of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, past president of the board of First City Fund Corporation, a member of the board of directors of Elm City College Prep and the Greater New Haven Community Foundation. In 1999, she was named Minority Business Person of the Year by “Business New Haven,” and one of Twenty Noteworthy Women by the “New Haven Business Times.” She is a life member of and served as president of the Greater New Haven NAACP in 2000.
She received a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law and received her A.B. from Dartmouth College. Ms. Young is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing, the Connecticut Bar Association, the New Haven County Bar Association and the National Bar Association.
