Paths to Student Debt Cancellation 2023 | Student Borrower Protection Center | 6 February 2023 | Webinar

This event is a non profit organization focused on alleviating the burden of student debt for millions of Americans. It engages in advocacy, policymaking, and litigation strategy to rein in industry abuses, protect borrowers’ rights, and advance economic opportunity for the next generation of students.

This is leading a nationwide effort to end the student debt crisis by empowering policymakers and advocates to take action. Together, we can fight these abusive practices and work to protect the 45 million Americans with student debt.

This is a is reining in industry abuses and advancing reforms across the student loan market through aggressive advocacy, innovative research, and creative litigation strategy. Led by the team of former federal regulators that directed oversight of the student loan market at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, SBPC works to protect borrowers’ rights and advance economic opportunity for the next generation of students.

Our team combines deep subject matter expertise developed in and out of government with decades of senior-level policymaking and regulatory experience. Together, we are tackling the student debt crisis and expanding protections for student loan borrowers.

2023 Speakers

ADVISORY BOARDS:

Chuck Bell
Programs Director, Consumers Union

Eileen Connor
Director, Project on Predatory Student Lending

Lisa Donner
Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform

Richard Dubois
Executive Director, National Consumer Law Center

Merf Ehman
Executive Director, Columbia Legal Services

Ben Elga
Executive Director, Justice Catalyst

Austin Evers
Executive Director, American Oversight

Sen. Eric Lesser
Senator, Massachusetts

Kristin McGuire
Executive Director, Young Invincibles

Ted Mermin
Co-founder & Executive Director , Public Good Law Center , Executive Director , Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice

Patrick Murphy
Former Under Secretary of the United States Army, Former U.S. Congressman (PA-8)

Ted Mermin
Co-founder & Executive Director , Public Good Law Center , Executive Director , Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice

Holly Petraeus
Former Assistant Director, Office for Servicemember Affairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

John Podesta
Founder & Board Member, Center for American Progress

Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Public Interest Research Group

Charley Olena
Associate Director of State Affairs, Secure Democracy

Angela Peoples
Co-Founder, The South

Hon. Sarah Bloom Raskin
Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board

Nick Rathod
Former Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Former Special Assistant to, President Obama

Ellen Rosenblum
Attorney General, State of Oregon

Beverly Brown Ruggia
Financial Justice Organizer, New Jersey Citizen Action

Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers