Dr. Laine Walters Young is the Assistant Director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at Vanderbilt University. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt in Religion, Psychology and Culture, and considers herself a feminist care ethicist working at the intersection of psychology and ethics. She has experience in non-profit administration as well as a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School where she studied Religion in Public Life, storytelling, and the possibilities of pluralism. Further back, she studied journalism and global studies at Pacific Lutheran University, a culmination of growing up in the Pacific Northwest.
At the Cal Turner Program, she directs the interprofessional student fellowship at Vanderbilt, a group of 18 masters-level students who journey together over a year to deepen their moral awareness and gain leadership skill. She also plays a main role in designing and hosting the Program’s additional events, workshops, and courses on a variety of moral leadership subjects such as conflict transformation, restorative justice, educating for trauma-informed care, and cultivating courage.
In her free time, you can find her nose deep in a sci–fi novel, baking with her first-grade son Theodore, or eating her husband’s fabulous cooking.