Olivia Wein

Senior Attorney

Olivia Wein is a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), where she has represented consumers for over 20 years. NCLC is a non-profit organization focused on using consumer law to promote economic security for low-income and other disadvantaged people. Ms. Wein focuses on policies and programs that protect low-income consumers’ access to essential utility services, including water, energy and telecommunications. Ms. Wein works on funding and implementation of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the federal Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and the federal Lifeline program. Ms. Wein intervenes in utility commission proceedings in matters affecting low-income utility consumer programs and protections.

She is co-author of the seventh edition of NCLC’s manual, Access to Utility Service, and co-authored the Water Affordability Advocacy Toolkit and Protecting Seriously Ill Consumers from Utility Disconnection. Ms. Wein serves on the board of the Universal Service Administrative Company and on the governing board for the National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition.

Prior to joining NCLC, Olivia was an Economic Justice Fellow at Consumers Union in Washington, D.C.

Education: 

J.D. Golden Gate University School of Law

M.A. Columbia University’s Teachers College

B.A. Barnard College