Eric Zell

Eric Zell is the litigation director at the National Association of Consumer Advocates. In that role, Eric develops and coordinates the approach to national litigation, organizes NACA’s amicus strategy, and…

Ryanne Olsen

Ryanne is responsible for both developing a pool of highly qualified state and federal judicial nominees to put forward for selection, as well as creating a campaign to highlight the…

Sophia Huang

Sophia serves as the liaison between NACA members and the legislative team, working with them on national and local issues. She also works on outreach to consumers (Consumers Ascending) and…

Rebecca Smolar

Rebecca is responsible for partnering with NACA members to develop and strengthen NACA’s education and training offerings and to ensure that members are kept abreast of trends in the field.…

Jonas Wilson

Jonas is responsible for recruiting new members and ensuring that current members are receiving a high level of customer service and taking full advantage of their NACA membership. He is…

Matt Hemmendinger

Matt works with members to build and enhance the NACA community and brand. He ensures that member services and professional development offerings are providing opportunities for members to engage with…

Christine Hines

Christine Hines is senior policy director at the National Association of Consumer Advocates, where she advocates before federal agencies and Congress on a variety of consumer protection issues, generally covering…

Toris Moody

Toris is responsible for the day-to-day operations at NACA. He handles NACA’s human resources, finances, general administration, and contracted IT. Toris works to streamline NACA’s internal processes to maximize resources…

Ira Rheingold

Ira Rheingold is NACA’s executive director. Ira has testified before both houses of Congress on various mortgage lending and consumer finance issues, offered commentary before federal agencies charged with regulating financial…