Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician, serving as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013. For more than 30 years, this former academic was considered one of the nation’s top experts on the financial pressures facing middle-class families. She taught classes on commercial law, contracts, and bankruptcy, and conducted groundbreaking research on the connection between health care costs and personal bankruptcy. Warren is widely credited for the original thinking, relentless persistence, and political courage that led to the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.