Tara Mikkilineni was an IILJ Scholar from 2004-2008. She received her J.D. and LL.M. from NYU Law and is currently the Fair Lending Enforcement Counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She has previous experience working as an attorney for Casetext, as the Habeas Corpus Counsel at the Habeas Resource Center in San Francisco, as a staff attorney in the Special Litigation Division at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and as an associate at Sidney Austin. She has also clerked for the Hon. Emilio M. Garza in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.