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Tanya Youngberg

Assistant Secretary and Deputy General Counsel

Tanya Youngberg has served as RFE/RL’s Deputy General Counsel and the Assistant Secretary of the Corporation since June 2022. Youngberg previously worked for eight years as a litigator at Williams & Connolly and clerked for two federal judges. She was an analyst at the United States Department of Defense before her legal career. Youngberg earned a B.A. from Brown University in Slavic Studies and International Relations, an M.A. from Harvard University in Regional Studies (Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia), and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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