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Sean J. Young is a Staff Attorney with the Federal Defender Program, Inc. for the Northern District of Georgia, which represents people accused of committing federal crimes but are unable to afford an attorney. 

Previously, Young was the Legal Director of the ACLU of Georgia and an attorney with ACLU's Voting Rights Project.  Young has also served as a judicial law clerk at both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.  He is a 2006 graduate of Yale Law School and a 2002 graduate from Duke University. 

Young was awarded 2019 Attorney of the Year by the Daily Report, Georgia's leading legal newspaper, and received the Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers under 40 Award - Class of 2019 by the National LGBT Bar Association & Foundation.