About
Ashley N. Young, Esq., is currently the Managing Attorney at the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault's (MCASA) Sexual Assault Legal Institute (SALI). Ms. Young completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, graduating in 2007. Her major was sociology with a minor in African American Studies. Throughout her time at the University of Michigan, she was actively involved in many student groups including serving on the executive board, as the secretary, of the National Council of Negro Women. Since her time at the University of Michigan, Ms. Young has fostered her interest in issues of race, gender, and inequality.
Ms. Young participated in the Winter 2007 cohort of the Michigan in Washington Program. She interned with the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Upon graduating from the University of Michigan she relocated to Washington D.C. in order to attend law school the Georgetown University Law Center. While in law school she was a student attorney in the Juvenile Justice Clinic, working as a juvenile defense attorney for youth involved in the criminal justice system. She was also the community service editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. She spent the summer after her 2L year as a Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Martin Luther King Jr. Fellow and in the Equal Justice Works Summer Corps.
After law school, Ms. Young began her legal career at Washington D.C.’s Children’s Law Center, where she worked as an attorney on behalf of children in child welfare cases. After three years at the Children’s Law Center, Ms. Young was promoted to a Supervising Attorney. She supervised teams of three to four staff attorneys in all aspects of their case work. Ms. Young began working at SALI in July of 2019 as the managing attorney. SALI provides direct legal representation to sexual assault survivors in Maryland. At SALI, Ms. Young manages the program, supervises all staff attorneys, the senior attorney, and senior legal advocate. She also supervises the Sexual Assault Kit Intitiative program. In her capacity as managing attorney, Ms. Young also sits on the statewide Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee and the Maryland Attorney General's COVID-19 Access to Justice Task Force, Surviving Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Committee.
