Katie Porter is running for re-election to Congress.She has spent nearly two decades as a consumer advocate against Wall Street banks and powerful financial institutions that try to take advantage of middle-class families. The daughter of a farmer an... Read more

Katie Porter is running for re-election to Congress.She has spent nearly two decades as a consumer advocate against Wall Street banks and powerful financial institutions that try to take advantage of middle-class families. The daughter of a farmer and teacher, Katie has seen firsthand how the agricultural crisis of the 1980s took its toll on families and communities. After she graduated from Yale University, she attended her school at Harvard Law School, where she studied bankruptcy law from her influential Elizabeth Warren Professor and co-wrote a book on debt and credit law with her. did. She has a national reputation for fighting unfair practices by Wall Street banks, her credit card companies, her student loan servicers, and predatory lenders. In 2012, she was raising her three young children and teaching law at the University of California, Irvine. She founded a consumer protection legal clinic there.That's when Vice President Kamala Harris, then-California Attorney General, told Katie to become the California Monitor for National Mortgage Settlements. Her five largest banks on Wall Street promised billions of dollars in bailouts for cheated homeowners, but Katy set the banks' legs on fire. She secured $18 billion for California homeowners and helped tens of thousands of families across the state. She works to lower credit card fees and is dedicated to ending predatory banking practices that hurt women and families. We fought back against a dangerous agenda that puts powerful interests ahead of family and family. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris both supported Katie's candidacy, who lives with her three children in Irvine, where she helps her sons lead their Cub Scout party. increase. Less