Linda Young

Linda Young, who currently serves as Special Assistant to the President for Governmental and Community Relations at Austin Community College, has an extensive background in both volunteer services and in volunteer recruitment, training and coordination for programs and agencies.

Her professional life has focused largely on education, and has included teaching in public schools and at the community college and university level. Ms. Young has also acted as an administrator in varied capacities for community colleges. Linda has also owned her own consulting firm, served in the Texas Attorney General's Office, the Governor's Office, and has served as executive director of a state agency.Linda began volunteer service during her junior high school years, serving as a youth leader in community 4H Clubs; her volunteer service continued throughout her school years and through college, where she served as a volunteer for a wide range of community and school service organizations, often serving in officer positions. Throughout her professional carrier, Ms. Young has continued to work in community and volunteer organizations. Linda has always found time to make a contribution to organizations, from working to help establish a chamber of commerce for a large unincorporated suburb of Houston, to serving as co-chair of the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Port of Houston, the Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee and numerous other volunteer efforts. As a result of her experience in volunteerism organizations look to Linda to train volunteers. These opportunities include coordinating hundreds of volunteers for a presidential campaign for a range of campaign duties, and continuing to training volunteers in her capacity as president of the Texas Women's Political Caucus and Regional Director for the National Women's Political Caucus.

Young has made presentations to local organizations, state, national and international conferences throughout her career. She addressed the International Association of Chiefs of Police at two of their annual conventions, receiving recognition from the Association for leadership "to Texas and the nation" in her role with the state agency she administered; also during her tenure as executive director of the agency, she addressed two annual conferences (Rice University, 1994, and San Carlos, Mexico, 1996) of the Border Conference of Attorneys General of the United States and Mexico, speaking on bi-national collaboration on property crime issues; in 1998, she addressed the annual conference for the National Council of Resource Development in Washington DC, presenting information on developing community collaborations for Welfare to Work programs. Linda was the first female and only representative from the US to address the 1996 annual conference for the European Alliance of Secure Vehicles in London, England, sponsored by English Parliament; she was a major presenter to the 1995 annual conference of the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators in Miami, Florida, and was invited to address this conference again in Sydney, Australia in 1997.