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Lauren Young, Committee Member

Lauren Young is a white woman with short, curly brown hair. She wears a gray blazer, dangle earrings, and a soft smile.

Lauren is an attorney with over forty years’ experience in public interest law, including with Disability Rights Maryland where she was Director of Litigation.  Lauren worked with   disability advocates and others to act on disability discrimination in housing, transportation, education, health care, voting, places of public accommodation.  She has participated in abuse investigations of people with disabilities in state institutions including psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and prisons.  She participated in the Attorney General Access to Justice COVID-19 Task Force, as sub-committee chair for Medicaid and Health Issues; as Commissioner for the Advisory Commission for the Maryland Department of Disabilities; as co chair of the subcommittee studying disability bias for the Commission on Child Custody Decision Making. She has marched in D.C and several states with ADAPT friends and others.  She is delighted to be working with her friends and colleagues and to continue learning from the disability community.

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