Carolyn Carter

Deputy Director

Carolyn Carter is deputy director at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and previously served as director of advocacy. She is the recipient of the NCLC’s 1992 Vern Countryman Award and served on the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council from 2005-2007.

She is a co-author or contributor to a number of NCLC’s treatises, including Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices, Federal Deception Law, Collection Actions and Consumer Warranty Law and is a contributor to a number of other NCLC treatises. She is co-author of several recent NCLC reports, including No Fresh Start 2023: Will States Let Debt Collectors Push Families Into Poverty as Economic Uncertainty Looms?

Before joining NCLC, she was co-director of a legal services program in Pennsylvania and was a staff attorney and then law reform director at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland.

Education: 

J.D. Yale Law School

B.A. Brown University