Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

Elizabeth Warren is a fearless consumer advocate and the senior senator from Massachusetts. She is one of the nation’s leading progressive voices, fighting for big structural change to transform our economy and rebuild the middle class. In her 13 years in the United States Senate, Senator Warren has used her platform to hold some of the nation’s largest corporations and most powerful government agencies accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse. Senator Warren currently serves as the Ranking Member — the top Democrat — on the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senator Warren is recognized as one of the nation's top experts on bankruptcy and the financial pressures facing middle class families. She is widely credited for the original thinking, political courage, and relentless persistence that led to the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has protected consumers from financial tricks and traps often hidden in mortgages, credit cards and other financial products for 15 years. The Boston Globe has called her "the plainspoken voice of people getting crushed by so many predatory lenders and under regulated banks."
As a law professor for more than 30 years, Warren taught courses on commercial law, contracts, and bankruptcy, and has written more than a hundred articles and eleven books, including four national best-sellers, This Fight Is Our Fight, A Fighting Chance, The Two-Income Trap, and All Your Worth. Warren is a graduate of University of Houston and Rutgers School of Law. She and her husband Bruce Mann have been married for 41 years and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their golden retriever, Bailey. They have three grandchildren.