Rye Young draws on fourteen years of experience in social justice philanthropy to help individual donors and foundations align their values with their practices and invest boldly and strategically in movements. He serves as the Director of the Sprocket Foundation leading their grantmaking on decriminalization and prison abolition. He is the co-director and co-founder of DIGG (Donor Intro to Grounded Giving), a donor organizing and political education program for young people with wealth to start their journey in social justice philanthropy. Rye is a Trustee of the Freeman Foundation and a member of the Board of Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity (URGE). He got his start in social justice philanthropy at Third Wave Fund where he had a long career that started as an abortion fund intern in 2008 and ended with him serving as their Executive Director from 2014-2018.