The inaugural dean of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University, Donna E. Young has more than two decades of experience in the legal academy committed to fostering diversity and social justice in law. Her teaching and scholarship focus on law and inequality, race and gender discrimination, and academic freedom and university governance. She has taught courses in Criminal Law, Employment Law, Federal Civil Procedure, Gender and Work, and Race, Rape Culture, and Law. Dean Young is much sought after as a speaker and has been invited to present her work at conferences and other venues around the world. She has been a Fellow at Cornell Law School's Gender, Sexuality, and Family Project, a Visiting Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School's Institute of Feminist Legal Studies, an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School, and a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law at Roma Tre University. She has also been a consultant to the International Development Law Organization for whom she traveled to Uganda to conduct field research on the relationship between gender inequality and law in the context of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Prior to her appointment as the inaugural dean of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University, she was the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School and a joint faculty member in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at the University at Albany. She has been a staff member at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance, in Washington, D.C. and was a member of the AAUP's Committee A, the preeminent national body setting standards and investigating academic freedom disputes in the United States.