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 unfair, deceptive and fraudulent business practices in auto sales, financial products and services, and other industries. She also pushes for policies that would improve individuals’ access to justice and their ability to hold corporate wrongdoers accountable. Christine speaks regularly on event panels and has written and published policy papers on economic justice issues, mainly discussing the impact of unfair contract provisions and dishonest sales practices on consumer protection and the marketplace.

She has appeared in numerous national and local news publications as an expert on various consumer protection matters. She collaborated with the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice to create the Consumer Law Advocates, Scholars & Students (CLASS) Network, which focuses on building consumer law programs at law schools around the country. She is a contributor to Public Citizen Litigation Group’s Consumer Law & Policy Blog. She is also a 2023 recipient of the National Consumer League’s Consumer Champion award. Before joining NACA, she was consumer and civil justice counsel at Public Citizen, where she advocated on a range of issues, primarily covering consumer product safety and access to courts.

Christine received her law degree at the University of Virginia School of Law, a Master’s in Public Affairs Reporting at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, and her bachelor’s in political science at American University in Washington, DC.