is an American attorney and law professor. She serves as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She is also the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. In the wake of the 2008-2011 financial crisis, she became the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to investigate the U.S. banking bailout (formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program). She has long advocated for the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau[3][4], which was established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.
Basically, her job is to help set up a program that increases financial stability for people and the government by making government and private agencies transparent and accountable to the general public. It is designed to eliminate loopholes that exploit citizens, regulate where gov. and private funds go and how they are used, etc. Something this is long overdue in the US. We need some accountability!
On an additional note, she's quite the lady in other ways:
Warren was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009 and 2010.
In December 2009, the Boston Globe named Warren the Bostonian of the Year.[32]
The National Law Journal has repeatedly named Professor Warren as one of the fifty most influential female lawyers,[33] and she has been recognized for her work by SmartMoney magazine, Money magazine, and Law Dragon.
In 2009, the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts honored her with the Leila J. Robinson Award.
Warren has been recognized for her dynamic teaching style. In 2009, Warren became the first professor in Harvard's history to win the law school's teaching award twice. The Sacks-Freund Teaching Award was voted on by the graduating class in honor of "her teaching ability, openness to student concerns, and contributions to student life at Harvard." Warren also has won awards from her students at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and the University of Houston Law Center.
In short, she's a pretty amazing lady and seems genuinely concerned for people like me, which I highly appreciate because lately, it seems very little people care about the "petty" concerns of the working class.
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