About Derek Young

Derek Young is the founder and editor of Exit133. He is unabashedly pro-Tacoma, has a penchant for wine over beer, and truly appreciates a well maintained vintage apartment building. Derek does not work in real estate or in the city government.

He moved from Southern California during the exodus of 1992 and has never looked back. Derek doesn’t mind biking in the rain, greatly discourages the baking of pecan pie, and maintains a great disdain for fake window shutters. He often scans negatives and slides without first clearing the dust and lint. He apologizes. Derek spent ten years in the corporate offices of REI before jumping into his side projects full time in February 2007.

Derek graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a BS in Biology, a second major in Politics & Government, and a minor in Chemistry. He also has an MBA from the University of Washington Tacoma’s Milgard School of Business.

If you want to follow more day to day happenings, Derek is on twitter at www.twitter.com/derekyoung.