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Gail K. Hillebrand, Financial Services Campaign Manager
 Gail Hillebrand leads Consumers Union’s Financial Services advocacy campaign based in Consumers Union’s West Coast office. She is works to improve the marketplace for consumers in banking, consumer credit, payments, identity theft, and e-commerce. Ms. Hillebrand is a long time Bay Area resident and consumer advocate. She is the founding contributor to the Daily Dollar’s Money Mom consumer tips series. To learn more about Consumers Union’s financial services advocacy, see: www.consumersunion.org/money.html, www.financialprivacynow.org, and www.creditcardreform.org.
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Michelle Jun, Staff Attorney
 Michelle Jun is a Staff Attorney for Financial Privacy Now. She came to Consumers Union in 2003, initially to work on nonprofit hospital and healthcare conversions. Michelle works on payments issues, and has also worked on identity theft and financial privacy issues. A transplant from Southern California, Michelle now resides in San Francisco.
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Michael McCauley, Media Director
 Michael
McCauley has nine years of media experience, serving
as media liaison for a number of nonprofit organizations.
Prior to joining CU in 2000, Mr. McCauley served as
Communications Director for Greenbelt Alliance, the
Bay Area's regional land conservation and urban planning
nonprofit. As Communications Director, he handled a
number of responsibilities, including media outreach,
policy communications, and marketing. Before moving
to California, he was Communications Director for Trial
lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ), the national public
interest law firm based in Washington, D.C. At TLPJ,
he coordinated media relations for the organization's
wide ranging docket of environmental, consumer, and
civil rights cases. Prior to TLPJ, McCauley served as
Research Director for Public Citizen's Congress Watch.
During that time, he oversaw the group's research efforts
on a wide number of consumer and environmental issues,
and acted as a key spokesperson on congressional reform
issues.
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Money Mom
The Money Mom blog series is penned by the Consumers Union Financial Services team. Money mom’s goal is to provide useful money and finance tips, and to inform and involve you on how to better safeguard your wallet and funds.
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