Past Events

The Economic Rights and Consumer Celebration was a Success!

On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 MCRC celebrated consumers and champions from the past year at our second annual Economic Summit & Consumer Celebration!

AWARDS

We honored some of the best and brightest fighting for economic justice and financial inclusion in our state:

  Legislative Achievement of the Year

Senator Mary Washington 

Up-and-Coming Legislator of the Year 

Delegate Lorig Charkoudian 

Consumer Advocate of the Year  

Baltimore City Councilman

Legal Champion of the Year

                     Eric Friedman, Office of Consumer Protection  - Montgomery County

Federal Champion of the Year

 Whitney Barkley-Denney, Legislative Policy Counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending

SPEAKERS

We were thrilled to have two amazing speakers lined up for the summit and awards ceremony:

Opening Speaker

Lawrence Lanahan, Baltimore-based journalist and author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

Keynote Speaker

Arron Glantz, Senior Reporter at Reveal and author of Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream