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 Jason Young is a Vice President in the Public Affairs Division at The Glover Park Group. For more than a decade Jason Young has crafted high-impact public affairs strategies to shape public policy, particularly on health and civil rights issues. Young managed the launch of Microsoft’s “Is Your Family Set?” campaign, engaging families across the country in creating rules on video game/Internet use, protecting children’s health and safety, and thus preserving a favorable policy environment for the Xbox 360 and other game systems. Young is a key part of a program to enhance Eli Lilly’s reputation in DC by raising awareness among policy and media elites of Lilly’s charitable activities, policy positions, and programmatic assets, such as its clinical trials registry. Young’s health care focus extends to medical devices manufacturer Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI), where he is bringing media attention to a Medicare decision that risks patients’ access to life- and limb-saving medical care. Before joining The Glover Park Group, Young was acting communications director for the American Psychiatric Association, advocating on behalf of the nation’s psychiatrists and the mental health of all Americans. As the national medical society’s lead communications strategist and advisor, Young organized two successful efforts to urge the Food & Drug Administration to protect access to psychiatric medications (antidepressants and stimulants) though the FDA was poised to restrict access. Previously Young was vice president of communications and marketing for one of the nation’s largest non-connected political action committees, the Victory Fund. There he helped more than 80 percent of endorsed candidates win election by equipping them with effective messages and strategies. And he was press secretary for Baltimore City Council President Sheila Dixon, who has since been elected mayor. Young has re-branded two national advocacy organizations and has media trained more than a thousand psychiatrists, political candidates and others over his communications career. An on-the-record spokesperson and gifted writer, Young’s quotes, columns and letters can be found in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Baltimore Sun among others. Young is a member of the Alliance Française de Washington, the Public Relations Society of America and its Health Academy. He earned his economics degree from the University of Maryland at College Park. |
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