Karen Lusson is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, who focuses on energy and utility issues that affect low-income customers. Previously she was the assistant bureau chief in the Public Utilities Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.  Her duties included representing Illinois residential ratepayers in litigation involving utility rate increase requests, [...]

Andrea Bopp Stark is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center Boston office focusing on writing and teaching about fair debt collection practices and mortgage servicing issues. Andrea is also involved in advocating for foreclosure prevention and fair debt collection policies on the state and federal level. Andrea is a contributing author to [...]

Mike assists with the day-to-day operations of NCLC's finance and human resources work, including processing of checks and invoices, budget preparation, and payroll. Previously, he worked at New England Newspapers in its finance department. Mike is a graduate of Western New England University in Springfield, MA.

The National Consumer Law Center is sad to announce the passing of John Andrew (Andy) Spanogle, Jr. on December 18, 2020 on his 86th birthday. Andy was a longstanding consumer advocate, NCLC Partners Council member, and co-chair of NCLC’s Campaign for the Future. Throughout his remarkable life, Andy was a fierce advocate for consumers: as [...]

The National Consumer Law Center Honors David Humphreys and Luke Wallace  David Humphreys Luke Wallace With the 2017 Vern Countryman Consumer Law Award The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) is proud to honor Oklahoma attorneys David Humphreys and Luke Wallace with the 2017 Vern Countryman Consumer Law Award, named after one of our founding trustees. [...]

Maggie Westberg provides research and litigation support for NCLC's attorneys. She is a graduate of Dickinson College, previously worked at the Alliance for Children's Rights in Los Angeles, and came to NCLC as a communications intern before starting her current position.

Katie Eelman is the Marketing, Sales & eCommerce Manager of the National Consumer Law Center's publications division, working on promotions, digital marketing efforts, and fostering customer relationships. Previously, she was the media and events director at the Boston independent bookstore Papercuts J.P., where she co-founded the store's literary imprint Cutlass Press. Katie is a graduate [...]

John Cleary works in the Publications division of the National Consumer Law Center improving the digital platform and providing support for customer service, accounting, and sales and marketing. John graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing and spent many years as a customer service representative at Hachette Book Group and [...]

Cory Murray is the National Consumer Law Center’s Development Associate, working to streamline development operations as well as assisting in individual giving, major gifts, foundation relations, conferences, and events. She focuses on managing NCLC’s donor database system in order to accurately track and maintain valuable funding to NCLC.