Angelic Young

Angelic Young is Director of Training for Law Enforcement at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Since joining the ADL in September, she designed and launched a new training curriculum: Managing Implicit Bias for Law Enforcement. Several hundred law enforcement professionals have taken this training since ADL rolled out the curriculum in late 2017; 85 percent of participants to date report that they feel better equipped to manage the impact of implicit bias on their law enforcement work. Over the next year, Young will be working with ADL staff to update and enhance several other training curricula — all organized around core values, procedural justice, trust and legitimacy, and inclusive policing — across the United States.

Before joining ADL, Young spent six years at the Institute for Inclusive Security counseling government leaders on the creation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of national action plans (NAPs) to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325. NAPs are detailed strategies aimed at advancing women’s inclusion in peace and security and reducing the global gender gap. Young worked with multiple governments, including Jordan, Finland, Liberia, Canada, and the United States.

Young spent the bulk of the first ten years of her career as a frontline civilian at the Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. There, she led police training and criminal justice reform programs in conflict-affected countries including Afghanistan and Haiti. She took one year off from INL to work in the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance, serving as the senior coordinator for Peace and Security. In that role, she coordinated all security assistance for the Department of State.

Young also served as an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government for the past eleven years, teaching a graduate-level course titled, “International Police and the Rule of Law.”

Young is a Class of 2013 Security Fellow at Truman National Security Project, where she has been involved with the Women, Peace, and Security work. At TruCon18, Young was awarded Member of the Year. She has a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law and BA from Willamette University. She grew up in Puyallup, Washington, and misses real mountains dearly.