Before joining the Hub, Tara Mikklineni was Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director of the CFPB, where she advised leadership on the CFPB’s docket of enforcement investigations and litigations, including cases against the nation’s largest financial institutions. Prior to the CFPB, Tara was a senior attorney at Civil Rights Corps, where she litigated challenges to prosecutorial misconduct, debtor’s prisons, and the unconstitutional use of money bail all over the country. Tara began her career as a special litigation attorney with the Public Defender Service of DC (PDS), bringing lawsuits on behalf of PDS clients in federal court to vindicate their civil rights.