Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership
Morehouse College
Our Mission
The mission of the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership is to prepare and inspire a community of critical thinkers and leaders committed to engaging complex global problems of marginalized groups, especially peoples of African descent.
The AYCGL Leadership Innovation Lab
The AYCGL Leadership Innovation Lab is dedicated to researching and developing solutions to social challenges affecting underserved communities. Composed of student teams guided by faculty advisors, the lab provides opportunities for students to either join existing teams or propose new leadership initiatives. The program follows the Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) model, a curricular framework that allows students from freshman to senior year to collaborate on long-term projects aligned with faculty research interests. Participants may earn academic credit per semester or a research stipend.
Why Morehouse?
Leaders, we believe, are made, not born. Since 1867, Morehouse College has been producing world-class leaders–men who are intellectually, socially and morally equipped to meet the challenges and opportunities of their communities and professions.
About the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership
Morehouse College
As an ambassador, congressman, mayor, and civil rights leader, Andrew J. Young has created a legacy of leading the fight for human and civil rights, nationally and globally, providing leadership in pursuit of social justice, and creating opportunity and prosperity among those who are underserved. Young grew up with a drive to serve, first in the Peace Corps. and then as a pastor in rural Alabama. Young was a civil rights activist who joined the South Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1960 and became its executive director in 1964. He worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and played a crucial role in the negotiations, planning, and execution of strategies that grounded the civil rights movement. Young served as a Georgia congressman and then mayor of Atlanta, only the second Black mayor in its history (after another Morehouse graduate, Maynard Jackson), and ushered in unprecedented economic growth in the city. Young helped to land the 1996 Olympics and served as its co-chair. Young served as ambassador to the U.N. from 1977 to 1979. He led with moral clarity and was a champion for the under-served all over the world. Today, Ambassador Young continues to build his legacy as a servant leader in the world through the Andrew J. Young Foundation which supports education, health, and leadership development in the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean.
