Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Yale Law '90: Eric Stein
Eric Stein was one of a group of classmates who came from one of my favorite colleges-- Williams, which is tucked away in the mountains of western Massachusetts. He was pretty sharp-- his was another law journal note that I read with a sense of awe as he took on the difficult issue of school segregation (you can read that here).
His career after law school has been focused on a critically important and too-often ignored issue: fair lending practices, which allow families to own homes and build wealth. He has held leadership roles with Self Help, a nonprofit community development lender, and the Center for Responsible Lending, which... well, it is right there in the name. He's had some adventures in government, too-- among other things, he led the transition team that started up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Obama administration.
I love finding out about people like Eric who have persistently tackled a problem in our society-- and I have found a number of them among the relatively small group I went to law school with.
