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Bahamas first Honorary Consul to the United States, Michael Young

ATLANTA – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Public Service, the Honorable Frederick A. Mitchell, M.P. commissioned and presented letters of appointment to Mr. Michael Munroe Young as The Commonwealth of the Bahamas’ first Honorary Consul in the United States of America for the State of Georgia, on Wednesday September 6, 2006.

This historic presentation took place at the World Trade Center , Suntrust Plaza , Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia.

Michael M. Young is President of MPY & Associates Consulting Company in Fayetteville, Georgia. His company works with non-profit organizations and the business community in assisting funding opportunities that support the improvement of the quality of life for citizens in the Atlanta community. Mr. Young was a former Vice-President and Assistant Treasurer for the Delta Foundation and Vice President of Community Affairs at its World Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Young provided the company with thirty years of excellence in management and community/media relations with worldwide civic groups, corporations, and worldwide media.

Mr. Young’s personal community involvement included serving as a member of the Board of Directors with Leadership Atlanta, Atlanta Urban League, Board of Governors of the 191 Club and Atlanta Technical College, the Advisory Board of the Congressional Black Caucus, Atlanta Red Cross, and the Board of Visitors for the Center for Disease Control. He is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the 100 Black Men of Atlanta and an alumni of Leadership Atlanta. The Honorary Consul received his Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Cambridge International University, Cape Town, South Africa. He continued his studies at the Emory University Roberto Goizueta School of Business Executive Symposium, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Certified Community Relations Consultant and is an Honorary Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia.

Born to Bahamian parents in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mr. Young spent his formative years in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Patricia Jones-Young reside in Fairburn, Georgia. The couple have two children, a son Tori, and daughter Leah.

His responsibilities as Honorary Consul will include; forging Trade and Investment opportunities between the State of Georgia and The Bahamas; promoting and protecting the interest of Bahamian nationals, and fostering friendly relations between the Government of the Bahamas and the State of Georgia.

The Honorary Consul’s office at Atlanta comes under the direction of the Bahamas Consulate General, Miami, Florida’s jurisdiction, where Mrs. Alma A. Adams is the Consul General. The Consulate General Miami’s jurisdiction also includes: Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi, North and South Carolina and Florida.

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