KY-06: Geoff Young (D)
Geoff Young grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts and moved to Lexington-Fayette County in 1982, where he has lived ever since.
He became a member of the antiwar movement after taking two courses at MIT on U.S. foreign policy with Noam Chomsky. After graduating from MIT in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Geoff later got a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at UMass (Amherst) and a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics at UK.
He spent 15 years working in Frankfort, where he promoted energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies for Kentucky’s state energy office, an agency now called the Department for Energy Development and Independence. He was the assistant director for most of that time and participated in more than a dozen utility company cases before the Public Service Commission.
From 1982 to 2014, Young served in a wide range of responsible volunteer positions at Good Foods Co-op in Lexington, including treasurer, board member, board president, bylaws committee chair, planning committee member, and finance committee chair.
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