Chris Young retired as an Executive at First Citizens Bank in Raleigh after a 35–year career in banking. As a regional executive, she managed a thriving network in Central North Carolina and South Carolina as well as business development efforts in the Wisconsin region. During her career she also mentored a number of associates who went on to earn senior leadership roles. 

 

She is also an artist and avid traveler. She is known to carry a sketchbook while hiking and filling the pages with drawings that are later translated to oil or acrylic paintings at her Cary Studio.

 

As a dedicated community leader, Chris works with organizations in the greater Wake County area including serving on the Board of Trustees for the YMCA of the Triangle.

 

Chris joined the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Board of Directors in 2017 and currently serves as the Board Chair. She first came to the Mountain the summer of 1980 when she joined the collegiate staff. She remembers working rotations in the kitchen (cracked hundreds of eggs by hand and ran Hobart the dishwasher!), leading crafts, working at the front desk (used a switchboard to help homesick teens call home) and her time in housekeeping.  She recalls working hard (just like everyone else), having fun, leaning into servant leadership and hiking her first mountain. She also decided to change her college major to Finance. It was quite a life–changing summer!