About the Young Democrats
YDSC's mission is to unite and educate youth voters in South Carolina, and organize our political power. We do this by working to grow youth voter turnout, developing the Democratic Party in South Carolina, and increasing youth involvement in our communities.
A Brief History of YDSC
The Young Democrats of America is the oldest youth partisan organization in America, formed in 1932 with our neighbors in North Carolina forming the first chartered unit. The Young Democrats have existed in several forms in South Carolina since at least the mid-1930s, under the names of either YDSC or the South Carolina Young Democrats.
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It is believed that South Carolina has had a chapter since at least 1935, when Frank Wickham became YDA's third President. YDSC and its previous iterations have produced two YDA Presidents (Wickham, 1935; Will Bilton, 1989; notable: current SCDP Executive Director Jay Parmley, 1999), Donna Culbertson as YDA Secretary (1969) and YDA Vice President (1971), William Gray as VP for Minority Affairs (1977), Willie Robinson as a DNC Member (1983), and Monica Jones as a Vice President (1989).
YDSC as we know it today was restarted in 2011 when Ophelia Doe, the previous iteration's last vice president, and Mike Glymph, who had just reformed the College Democrats of South Carolina, filed with the state. Its first statewide meeting happened in September 2012, and YDSC re-chartered with YDA in 2013.​Ever since then, YDSC has focused on building a community of change-makers throughout the state, and increasing civic and political involvement among South Carolina's younger citizens.
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PRESIDENTS OF YDSC SINCE REORGANIZATION
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2011-12: Ophelia Doe
2012-15: Michael "Mike" Glymph
2015-18: Bryanta "Bre" Booker-Maxwell
2018-2022: Jeannette "Jeni" Atchley
2022-2024: Austin Jackson
from 2024: Brandi Matherly