I have spent almost my entire career working for the public good. For thirteen years, I worked in the Enforcement Office at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, investigating potential violations of consumer-protection law and suing bad actors. I served as lead counsel on CFPB v. Strategic Financial Solutions, where the Bureau and seven state attorneys general sued a sprawling debt-relief company and the many individual defendants who benefited financially. The team obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction and secured the appointment of a receiver. The case was covered extensively by The New York Times. I was also lead counsel on CFPB v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, CFPB v. Think Finance, and CFPB v. Golden Valley, among others.

Earlier in my career, I represented indigent, homebound seniors as an employee of AARP’s Legal Counsel for the Elderly. I was also appointed as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where I tried 14 bench trials to verdict as first-chair trial counsel and served as second-chair counsel on a complex jury trial. Before that, I served as a Presidential Management Fellow at the FBI, where I analyzed terrorism investigations and defended the Bureau and its agents in civil suits. Years ago, I worked as a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and I dabbled in tax law as a young associate at Steel Hector & Davis in Miami.

I live outside D.C. with my husband and our four teenagers. I enjoy home design, barre classes, and perfecting my banana bread recipe.