Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Law School

Stanford University

Associate Director at National Consumer Law Center

National Consumer Law Center

Associate Director

Lauren Saunders is Managing Attorney of the National Consumer Law Center in Washington, DC, where she directs the Center’s federal legislative and regulatory work. She regularly speaks, writes and testifies in areas including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, prepaid cards, mobile payments, small dollar loans, credit cards, bank accounts and preemption. She contributes to NCLC legal treatises including Consumer Banking and Payments Law, Cost of Credit and Fair Credit Reporting and has authored several reports and white papers. She previously directed the Federal Rights Project of the National Senior Citizens Law Center; was Deputy Director of Litigation at Bet Tzedek Legal Services; and was an associate at Hall & Phillips. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University.