Webinar: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 10th Birthday, with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Chairwoman Maxine Waters

The creation of the CFPB was a crucial, hard-won victory for the thousands of advocates, activists, allied organizations, and community leaders in AFR’s coalition. On Monday,  July 19, these groups and individuals  gathered virtually to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the CFPB and celebrate the bureau’s leadership in fighting for a just financial system. 

Program

0:00 – 3:57 Introduction by Lisa Donner, AFR Executive Director 

3:57 – 4:33 Introduction for Acting CFPB Director Dave Uejio by Mike Litt, PIRG Consumer Campaign Director

4:33 – 11:02 Remarks by Acting CFPB Director Dave Uejio

11:02 – 15:52 Introduction for Illinois State Senator Jaqueline Collins by Horacio Mendez, Woodstock Institute President

15:52 – 28:03 Remarks by Illinois State Senator Jaqueline Y. Collins

28:03 – 50:03 Conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Lisa Donner, AFR Executive Director

50:03 – 1:51:00 Panel moderated by Linda Jun, AFR Senior Counsel, featuring:

Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins

Col. Paul Kantwill, U.S. Army (Ret.) and former director, CFPB Office of Servicemember Affairs

Loraine Martinez Bellamy, Staff Attorney, Connecticut Fair Housing Center

Marceline White, Executive Director, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition

Kat Welbeck, Director of Advocacy and the Civil Rights Counsel, Student Borrower Protection Center 

1:51:00 – 2:06:50 Open Mic with audience members 

2:06:50 – 2:08:57 Introduction for Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) by Rich Dubois, Executive Director of the National Consumer Law Center

2:08:57 – 2:16:19 Keynote address by Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA)

2:16:19 – 2:17:17 Closing remarks from Rich Dubois, Executive Director of the National Consumer Law Center

The webinar was cosponsored by Americans for Financial Reform, Public Interest Research Group, Center for Responsible Lending, Consumer Federation of America, National Consumer Law Center, Consumer Action, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, New Jersey Citizen Action, the Woodstock Institute, the Student Borrower Protection Center, the Connecticut Fair Housing Center and the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

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