Gail K. Hillebrand, Financial Services Campaign Manager

Gail Hillebrand leads Consumers Union's Financial Services advocacy campaign based in Consumers Union's West Coast office. She is works to improve the marketplace for consumers in banking, consumer credit, payments, identity theft, and e-commerce. Ms. Hillebrand is a long time Bay Area resident and consumer advocate. She is the founding contributor to the Daily Dollar's Money Mom consumer tips series.

Michelle Jun, Staff Attorney

Michelle Jun is a Staff Attorney for Financial Privacy Now. She came to Consumers Union in 2003, initially to work on nonprofit hospital and healthcare conversions. Michelle works on payments issues, and has also worked on identity theft and financial privacy issues. A transplant from Southern California, Michelle now resides in San Francisco.

Lauren Z. Bowne, Staff Attorney

Lauren came to CU as a staff attorney in May of 2005 to work on children's health insurance with the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Project. She spent three years working on issues ranging from childhood obesity and marketing to children to nonprofit health entity conversions and health marketplace reform. She is currently a member of the Financial Services Advocacy Team.

Just prior to joining CU, Lauren attended law school during which she focused her efforts on consumer food issues and environmental policy. Before getting her legal education Lauren spent time working with a bay area organization that advocates for children's after-school and child-care programs. Lauren lives in San Francisco.

Michael McCauley, Media Director

Michael has been on Consumers Union's staff since January 2000. He works out of Consumers Union's west coast office in San Francisco and is currently the Media Director for CU's Safe Patient Project and Financial Services Campaigns. Prior to joining CU, Michael was the Communications Director for Greenbelt Alliance, a San Francisco Bay Area land conservation and urban planning nonprofit. Before moving to California, Michael was the Media Director for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and Research Director for Public Citizen's Congress Watch, both in Washington, D.C. He has over 20 years of experience as a public interest advocate, primarily in media relations.

Tim Marvin, Grassroots Organizer

Tim Marvin is a Grassroots Organizer at the West Coast Office of Consumers Union. He splits his time as a member of the financial services and the food and product safety teams. Prior to joining Consumers Union, Tim worked with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) first in 2001 as a student activist and canvasser. After college he was hired as a campus organizer at SUNY Albany then Syracuse University/ SUNY College of Environmental Science and University. In 2005 he worked in the Manhattan office overseeing activities at seven NYPIRG chapters around the state. During the summers he directed three outreach offices and then became a Regional Outreach Supervisor for two summers. In addition, he worked with NYPIRG's legislative and issue staff on a variety of campaigns such as the Bigger Better Bottle Bill and Wind Power Education.