Donna E. Young (she/her)  is the Founding Dean of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Before assuming her deanship, she was the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School and a joint faculty member at the University at Albany’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her teaching and scholarship focus on law and inequality, race and gender discrimination, and academic freedom and university governance. Dean Young is much sought after as a speaker and has been invited to present her work at conferences and other venues around the world. Prior to entering legal education, Professor Young worked at Cornish Roland, a labor law firm in Toronto, at the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and at the Legal Department of the City of New York, Mayor's Office of Labor Relations. Dean Young holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Toronto, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law.