Andrew Young’s resume reads like an historical chronology as he has served the United States, as well as all human beings in the following capacities:

• In 1955, Graduated Howard University
• Divinity Degree Hartford Seminary, Harford Connecticut
• Received more than 100 honorary degrees from universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad
• Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter
• Legion d’ Honneur – highest civilian honor for France
• In 1957, Young and Jean Childs Young (wife of two years) were invited to serve as Youth Division Director at the National Council of Churches
  in New York City.
• He took the role of assistant producer for Look Up and Live, a weekly Sunday morning television program on CBS that warmed him to confidence in front of a camera, extemporaneous meaningful speeches and ability to listen and communicate with people from all walks of life. His talent for television and communication has evolved to an award winning director of many peace-building, educational, inspirational productions.
• As a leader of the Civil Rights movement – in 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and worked on drives to register black voters. Young played a key role in the 1963 events in Birmingham, Alabama, serving as a mediator between the white and black communities as they negotiated against a background of protests.
• 1961 moves to Atlanta and in 1964, Young was named executive director of the SCLC, becoming, in that capacity, one of Martin Luther King’s principal lieutenants.
• As a colleague and friend of Martin Luther King Jr., he was a strategist and negotiator during the Civil Rights Campaigns in Birmingham (1963), St. Augustine (1964), Selma (1965), and Atlanta (1966). He was jailed for his participation in civil rights demonstrations, both in Selma, Alabama, and in St. Augustine, Florida. The movement gained congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
• Young was with King in Memphis, Tennessee, when King was assassinated in 1968.
• In 1972, with a simple campaign slogan “ Think Young” and lots of running and knocking on doors to get people out to vote, Young was the first elected African American Congressman since reconstruction in a district that was mostly white.
• US Congressman, D. Georgia, he served with distinction in the House of Representatives and from1974 and re-elected in 1976; sponsored legislation that established the U.S. Institute of Peace, the African Development Bank and the Chattahoochee River National Park
• Negotiated federal funding for the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the Atlanta hishway system and a new international airport for Atlanta
• After President Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 he appointed Andrew Young as the US United Nations Ambassador – he “helped shape both U.S. foreign policy and U.N. Consensus for greater emphasis on economic empowerment in developing nations around the globe” (W. J. Clinton). Mr. Young became the face of the administrations ambitious policy of engagement and inclusivity with developing countries and support for human rights around the world;
• End to white-minority rule in Namibia and Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)
• In 1978, Goes to Kenya with George Schulz, Secretary of State; African American Institute
• In 1981, after being urged by a number of people, including Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Young ran for mayor of Atlanta. He was elected later that year with 55% of the vote. As mayor of Atlanta, he brought in $70 billion of new private investment. He continued and expanded programs for including minority and female-owned businesses in all city contracts. The Mayor’s Task Force on Education established the Dream Jamboree College Fair that tripled the college scholarships given to Atlanta public school graduates. In 1985, he was involved in renovating the Atlanta Zoo, which was renamed Zoo Atlanta. Young was re-elected as mayor in 1985 with more than 80% of the vote. Atlanta hosted the 1988 Democratic National Convention during Young’s tenure. He was prohibited by term limits from running for a third term. During his tenure, he talked about how he was “glad to be mayor of this city, where once the mayor had me thrown in jail”. Young advanced interracial cooperation to improve education and increase prosperity, to encourage Atlanta’s growing diversity and make it the headquarters for 2500 international companies and always to pave the way for the next generation of African American leaders.
• Through partnership with Hans Dietrich Genscher he established the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics – Wittenberg, Germany. The Vision is to Promote processes that keep us one world at peace, justice, welfare, no fear by assisting change of paradigm to “Interaction”/ “win-win-strategies” to discuss and disseminate the finding of ethical needs for a new global society in hopes of building a better world for His vision in those early years was “To successfully address international problems in an atmosphere where everyone benefits, the disenfranchised must be given a realistic opportunity to apply themselves to economic achievement. In order to achieve this goal of shared prosperity, fairness and business acumen require that special consideration be given to people who have been locked out of the economic mainstream. A Stronger ecological awareness is an important prerequisite for eliminating the overexploitation of our natural resources. It is a matter of ethics.
• 1990 Young serves as co-chair of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games He laid the foundation for Maynard Jackson to gain foothold for the International Olympic Committee and for Billy Payne to bring the Centennial Olympics to Atlanta Georgia USA in 1996. And because he oversaw the largest Olympic Games in history numbers of participating countries, number of spectators and competing athletes, he received the Olympic Order Award, the highest award of the Olympic Movement.
• Young has been a director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, and is also the chairman of the board for the Global Initiative for the Advancement of Nutritional Therapy.
• In 1999, Georgia State University names the School of Policy Studies after Andrew Young
• From 2000 to 2001, Young served as president of the National Council of Churches.
• 2000 to 2012, He facilitated sustainable economic development in the business sectors of the Caribbean and Africa with Goodworks International, LLC
• In 2003, Young founded the Andrew Young Foundation, an organization meant to support and promote education, health, leadership and human rights in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.
• In 2003, he joined the Morehouse College Medical Teams in Central Africa to show that western medicine can learn from the Natural Healing benefits of Spiritual Healers in Voo Doo (Peace World)
• The Foundation has kept that concept alive by creating vehicles, partnerships and opportunities for conveying Andrew Young’s knowledge and life experiences with the world. Formed in the context of a philosophy of nonviolent social change and a belief that to those to whom much has been given, much is required, the foundation works to support, promote and develop global institutions and leaders. These institutions and leaders are infused with knowledge to improve and enhance social and economic justice and human rights through nonviolent action, democratic institutions and socially responsible for-profit corporations.
• In 2011, the Academy awarded him the Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award so in turn, his foundation initiated in 2015, Andrew Young International Leadership Awards.
• A portrait in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
• Founding Chair of the Southern African Enterprise Development Fund
• Central role in the United Nation’s Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa
• Andrew Young Foundation from philanthropic leadership to leadership training, we serve domestically and internationally. We have codified Andrew Young’s more than 60 years of public service into a narrative that is shared around the globe and used to influence others, allowing for his legacy of servant leadership and giving back to manifest and multiply through the actions of people and institutions we touch worldwide.