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Join us in the fight to change the rules governing the economy, and make finance work for us, not against us. Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) is seeking an Associate Director to lead our consumer financial protection work. The Associate Director in collaboration with AFREF staff and coalition partners will develop policies and strategies to fight consumer financial abuses and seek more equitable alternatives, advocate for the long-term survival of an effective Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, provide leadership and support for a nationwide consumer coalition, and connect consumer financial justice issues to still broader economic and racial justice and corporate accountability projects.  Issues in their portfolio will include junk fees, lending discrimination, debt collection, auto lending, forced arbitration, predatory loans, student debt and more. The Associate Director will research and write materials exploring and explaining issues for a...

About the Legal Aid Justice Center:   The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with low-income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.   Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas: Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJC’s recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginia’s...