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Odette Williamson is a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) promoting sustainable homeownership among low-income consumers. Her efforts include preventing foreclosures, curbing predatory mortgage lending, and preserving the income and assets of consumers of color. Odette directs NCLC’s Racial Justice and Equal Opportunity Project and oversees the Center’s Elder Rights Initiative. She provides testimony and comments to legislative and administrative agencies on matters affecting low-income elderly consumers and consumers of color, and educates hundreds of consumer lawyers, legal services attorneys, and lay advocates each year.
Odette is a co-author of NCLC’s Home Foreclosures and Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications. She is also the co-author of a recent NCLC report, Property Tax Foreclosures on Heirs Property: The Devastating Consequences and Recommendations for Prevention and host of numerous webinars and in-person trainings focused on sustaining homeownership, especially among consumers of color and older adults.
Before her work with NCLC, she was an assistant attorney general in the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General where she concentrated on civil enforcement actions against individuals and businesses for violation of consumer protection and other laws. As an assistant attorney general, she also served on the Elder Law Advocates Strike Force to combat unfair and deceptive acts against elderly citizens.
Education:
J.D. Boston College Law School, staff writer and editor for the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest
B.A. Tufts University