Young joined MFA Interaction Design as a faculty member in the spring 2020 semester, teaching the Leadership, Ethics, and Professional Practices course. During the pandemic, she introduced a second class, Research Methods. In 2023, she became the department’s director of programs. Outside of SVA, Young has led design research at littleBits, Openbox, Stae, and 3×3, and served as a faculty member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Her work has been presented globally as well as in the documentary Secret Mall Apartment (2025), and she holds a BA in history from Brown University and an MSc in city design from the London School of Economics. Currently, she is a senior advisor at the urban design studio SOUR and serves on the board of Superbloom.