As a single mom of three, Katie’s fight for working families is deeply personal. In her work as a consumer protection advocate, she was one of the first to sound the alarm about predatory lending on Wall Street ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.
When the crisis hit, Katie was appointed by then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris to assist California families cheated by the five biggest Wall Street banks.
Katie held the big banks accountable and forced them to pay billions to the people they harmed, helping tens of thousands of families move forward with their lives.
Katie ran for Congress because, years after the financial crisis, it’s clear that millions of Americans are STILL suffering due to corporate greed, and they need a representative who will truly fight for them.
Recently, Katie has led the charge for a windfall tax to claw back illicit profits from Big Oil that are bankrupting Americans at the gas pump.