Michelle Young

Michelle Young is an award-winning journalist, author, and professor whose writing on looted and lost art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Forward, and The Wilson Quarterly. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is a professor of architecture. She is also a scholar in the New York Public Library’s Allen Room and the founder of the publication Untapped New York. Michelle appears regularly in documentaries by Netflix, National Geographic, The History Channel, Smithsonian, PBS and more, and her work has been published additionally in Narratively, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Curbed, and Metropolis Magazine. She divides her time between New York City and Paris.