Americans for Financial Reform and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund announce the appointment of Ericka Taylor as Co-Executive Director. 

Taylor brings more than 30 years of experience fighting for economic and racial justice. She joins Lisa Donner in a new shared leadership structure aimed at enabling AFR to meet the challenge of the moment as billionaires wield unprecedented levels of power. The Co-Executive Directors will deploy AFR’s strengths in policy analysis, advocacy, coalition building, and campaigning to transform the rules of finance away from promoting wealth extraction and concentrated corporate power and toward building an economy that puts people first.

”Corporate greed is dismantling our democracy right before our eyes. The need for AFR could not be greater and I’m confident that Ericka Taylor makes us more capable of meeting the challenge of this moment,” said Renata Pumarol, Board Chair of Americans for Financial Reform. “AFR’s work defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a vehicle for consumer financial justice and corporate accountability from dangerous and self-serving attacks by Musk’s DOGE is just one crucial example.”

Prior to AFR, Taylor was the Co-Director of the DC Working Families Party and the founding Director of the Fair Budget Coalition. She has also served as Organizing Director for ONE DC and Program Officer for Public Welfare Foundation’s economic justice portfolio. She has been a member of the AFR team since 2019, running the organization’s Popular Education program and then becoming its Acting Chief of Staff.     

“I was drawn to AFR because of its unparalleled effectiveness in taking on injustice in the financial system and grappling with the entwined roles of wealth, race, and gender in people’s lives. The organization is exceptional in working across virtually every area where finance touches our lives, from consumer lending and housing to corporate governance to climate finance and the systemic risk created by inadequate regulation. I’m really energized to dig in with Lisa, our incredible staff, and other partners on the big picture project of advancing an economy that works for all and a nation where everyone can thrive. It has never felt more urgent,” Taylor said.

“We cannot sustain a democracy unless we are able to challenge Wall Street’s power. It is the right time for AFR to be launching a shared leadership structure; Ericka and Lisa will be a powerful force for justice. Together they will embody the values we hope to see reflected in a financial system that works for all of us,” said Steven Renderos, Board Chair for Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. 

“I am so excited to partner with Ericka to co-create the next chapter for AFR strengthened by her vision and strategic sense,” said Lisa Donner.

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