Bea YoungBea Young has been actively involved in supporting educational equity since her teaching days in the 1960s. She spent the summer of 1964 in Mississippi helping to develop the curriculum for the Civil Rights Freedom Schools. In 1965, she became the fist education services director for the Illinois Commission on Human Relations and was later appointed to executive director. Shortly thereafter, she became a consultant in the business world where she was a pioneer in developing cultural change through diversity and inclusion for Fortune 500 companies across the country. In 2005, she returned to her first love, education, and created Bea Young Associates, LLC: Collaboration for Educational Equity. Read More Read Less