J Street Board Member

Michael D. Young has been active with J Street since 2015 and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board’s Political Committee. Michael has served as a Board member of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (“ALLMEP”) as well as on the Board of the Israel Policy Forum (“IPF”). He also served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board of Legal Services NYC, which is the largest provider in the US of free civil legal assistance to low-income persons; and is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of GlimmerGlass Opera Festival. Michael is a Harvard Law School graduate and is a founder, shareholder and arbitrator/mediator with JAMS, the largest private mediation and arbitration firm in the world. He and his wife (Debra L. Raskin) own an apartment in the German Colony in Jerusalem and they otherwise live in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City. They have two adult children, a daughter-in-law and a grandson.