Joanna Darcus

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Joanna K. Darcus is a former staff attorney who worked on litigation, debt collection, and student loan matters. As part of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project, she represented low-income student loan borrowers, most of whom are people of color. Joanna uses advocacy and litigation to address predatory education and lending practices. From 2017-2019, she was the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation Racial Justice Fellow at NCLC.

Prior to joining NCLC, Joanna was a supervising attorney at Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia. While there, she represented hundreds of low-income consumers sued by debt collectors or struggling with student loans. She also trained other advocates and pursued policy reforms.

Joanna is a graduate of Williams College and Duke University School of Law.

She is a contributor to NCLC’s Student Loan Law and Surviving Debt.

Joanna now serves as Senior Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Education.