Vicki Young, MBA, BBA, has worked as an arts administrator for over 30 years with organizations across Canada and in Great Britain.  She has worked as a general manager, consultant, university department administrator, ballet instructor and artists’ agent. After studying ballet for 15 years, including a year in London, England, she obtained Bachelor and Master of Business Administration degrees at the University of New Brunswick. She has taught through the Department of Continuing Education for the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. She has served on the boards of a nursery school, rowing club, arts council, new music series, contemporary dance company, and the Alliance for Arts Education in Manitoba, and was co-founder of a children’s performing arts series in Fredericton that has thrived since 1984. She has been the Managing Director of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra since 2003. Winnipeg has been her home since 1990.