2010 Conference Speakers

Elizabeth Miu-Lan Young

Co-Founder, Inter-Change Consultants

Elizabeth Miu-Lan Young co-founded Inter-Change Consultants in 1987. She is a specialist in multicultural diversity training focusing on Asian issues at work. She has been active in the New York City Asian Community for the past 30 years. She was one of the founders of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in NYC (formerly the Chinatown Health Clinic). She taught the pilot Asian American Experience course at Hunter College and the University of Southern California. Liz served as the first Director of Project Reach - a 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.

Liz 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 is a member of Asian Women in Business and 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 and 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 seven years for the NCAA, Liz has co-facilitated the weeklong Leadership Intensive Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minorities and Division III’s groundbreaking Ethnic Minority and Women Internship Program joint orientation for interns, their supervisors and mentors.

She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and has received extensive training in Organizational Development.