Yvette is an attorney who specializes in offering expert legal and policy strategy and guidance in the areas of economic empowerment, emerging technologies, and consumer protection.

Currently serving as a Senior Counsel at Capital One, she plays a key role in applying fair lending, AI, and consumer finance laws and regulations to advance the company’s mission to “change banking for good”.

Yvette is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas’s Archer Center and the University of Pennsylvania’s Washington Program where she teaches public policy as well as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law and Board Member on the Georgetown Law Alumni Board.

Prior to joining Capital One, Yvette held impactful roles, including as a Fair Lending Regulatory Attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she played a pivotal role in shaping fair lending, artificial intelligence, and Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) legal strategies and regulations, and as head of the head of the Washington, D.C office and Vice President of Policy for the National Urban League, where she led the office’s work in advancing economic empowerment priorities for underserved communities. Her background includes roles as Senior Counsel and Democratic Legislative Director for the House Oversight Committee under Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, where she led investigations into the applications of Artificial Intelligence in both private and public sectors and their impact on consumer protection and civil rights and liberties; as an Attorney Advisor at the US Department of Justice; and as Counsel for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Yvette has also effectively managed government oversight, legislative engagement, and regulation as well as critical priorities for the CFPB and Match Group (the global technology parent company of Tinder, Match.com, and Hinge).

Yvette received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her bachelor’s degree in Government and English from Georgetown University.