2012 Conference Speakers

Elizabeth Young

Co-Founder, InterChange Consultants

Elizabeth Miu-Lan Young co-founded Inter-Change Consultants in 1987.  She is a specialist in cultural competencies training focusing on Asian issues at work.   She has been active in the New York City Asian Community for the past 40 years.  One of the founders of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in NYC (formerly the Chinatown Health Clinic), she also taught the pilot Asian American Experience course at Hunter College and the University of Southern California. Young served as the first Director of Project Reach - a Chinese-American Planning Council program working with Chinatown street gangs.  She also worked in a garment sweatshop to better understand the immigrant experience.  She was a senior research associate with an Affirmative Action consulting firm headed by Dr. Kenneth Clark.

Young has presented “Political Savvy” and “Kick Butt!! Just Not Your Own” workshops for affinity groups of color at Lucent Technologies and Verizon.  She has co-facilitated similar courses in Hong Kong and Jakarta and provided cross-cultural teambuilding and civil-capacity in East Timor. She has served on the faculty of Asian Pacific American Women Leadership Institute (APAWLI), where she conducted “Fending Off Culture Clash.”

She has also trained administrators, faculty and students in cultural competencies
at Fashion Institute of Technology’s Small Business Center, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, New York University, Princeton, the University of Connecticut, Brown University, new graduate students at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and new medical/dental students at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. 

Over the past eight years for the NCAA, Young has co-facilitated the weeklong Leadership Intensive Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minorities and Division III’s groundbreaking Ethnic Minority and Women’s Internship Program joint orientation for interns, their supervisors and mentors.