Persis Yu
Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Director of NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project
Persis S. Yu is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center and the director of NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project. She is a contributing author to NCLC’s Student Loan Law and Fair Credit Reporting. She has also co-authored several reports including: Education Department’s Decades-Old Debt Trap: How the Mismanagement of Income-Driven Repayment Locked Millions in Debt, and Pushed into Poverty: How Student Loan Collections Threaten the Financial Security of Older. Prior to joining NCLC, Persis was a Hanna S. Cohn Equal Justice Fellow at Empire Justice Center in Rochester, New York. Persis is a graduate of Seattle University School of Law, and holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College.