Yael Shavit is an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Her work addresses a wide range of consumer protection issues, with a focus on student loans and higher education matters. Before joining the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Yael held a Ford Foundation Public Interest Fellowship at the National Consumer Law Center (“NCLC”) and served as the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Yael previously clerked for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Yael graduated from Yale Law School in 2013 and received her B.A. in Public Policy and Economics from Brown University in 2008.
