Martin Eakes, CEO of Self-Help/Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) will speak on Tuesday, November 3 at 12:00p in Room 4085. Mr. Eakes co-founded Self-Help, a community development lender in 1980. CRL's staff includes attorneys, researchers, and policy analysts in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Oakland, CA, who study and report on predatory lending matters and monitor legislative and regulatory activity in state capitols and in the U.S. Congress. To date, CRL has helped save American families more than $4 billion annually.

Mr. Eakes holds a law degree from Yale, a Master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, and a B.A. from Davidson College.