Kyra Taylor

Staff Attorney

Kyra Taylor is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), focusing on student loan issues. Kyra also coordinates NCLC’s work on behalf of veteran and military families.  

Kyra recently served as a negotiator at the Department of Education’s winter 2023 negotiated rulemaking on broad based student loan debt relief. She regularly contributes to NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance website and Student Loan Law legal treatise.  

Before joining NCLC, Kyra was a staff attorney at Harvard Law’s Legal Services Center, where she worked in the Project on Predatory Student Lending. She litigated consumer class actions as a public interest fellow at the Washington DC plaintiffs’ firm Tycko & Zavareei LLP and Public Justice. Kyra also worked as an elementary school teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and East Harlem, New York.

Education: 

J.D. University of California, Berkeley School of Law

B.A. Temple University