Press Releases

Given growing evidence of widespread predatory practices across the student loan industry as federal regulators are charged with failing to to their job of protecting borrowers, the organizations co-sponsoring AB 376, the California Student Borrower Bill of Rights, are doubling down on their call to the state legislature to pass this critical borrower protection legislation.

The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) is announcing the addition of six new team members to support the organization’s work to end the student debt crisis. New staff include: Tamara Cesaretti as Counsel; Rebecca Maurer as Counsel and Program Manager for the Student Loan Law Initiative; Kat Welbeck as Counsel; Moira Vahey as Communications Director; Walter Suskind as Deputy Communications Director; and Ben Kaufman as Research and Policy Analyst.

Student Borrower Protection Center Executive Director and former CFPB student loan ombudsman Seth Frotman released the following statement on today’s announcement by the Bureau that student loan industry executive Robert G. Cameron will serve as the Bureau’s student loan ombudsman.