Vicky Young

Vicky Young grew up in Northeast Ohio, in what is now the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. She was a military wife for 20 years, living worldwide, including the Philippines, Iceland, Key West, and San Diego.

She earned her BA at Prescott College, then two MEd degrees in Educational Leadership and Counseling from Northern Arizona University. She earned an MA and PhD (2007) in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. Vicky teaches online undergraduate and graduate psychology courses, such as Community Psychology, Learning Theories, and Living with Loss: Studies of Grief and Transitions.

In 2004, Vicky donated her kidney to a Native American former colleague. Her dissertation was about living kidney donors’ experiences. She served seven years on the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Living Donor Committee and Board of Directors working on U.S. policies for organ transplantation.

Under the aegis of the Center for Indian Bilingual Teacher Education, Vicky represented PC on the Navajo Nation Teacher Education Consortium. For two decades, she guided students from over 15 Southwest sovereign nations to become bilingual and bicultural teachers, applying their indigenous language, history, and culture in the reservation and border town classrooms.

Vicky created one of Arizona’s first early childhood teacher certification programs. She reviewed early childhood programs for the AZ Department of Education. In Jakarta, Indonesia, Vicky worked on a Ministry of National Education and World Bank project to provide educators with college credit for their academic work in rural isolated community schools.