Money Matters: Tools For Saving & Paying For College

Date and Time
September 23, 2016
Event Details

Aissa Canchola explains the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s vast array of tools and resources available for young consumers and their families that are intended to help them make informed financial decisions about saving and paying for college, including tools to help borrowers pay back their student loans.  Learn about the Bureau’s complaint system available for consumers to submit issues dealing with their student loans.

Aissa Canchola currently serves in the Office for Students and Young Consumers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She works on higher education policy and student loan  repayment issues and lead the office’s outreach and engagement work. Prior to her work at the Bureau, Aissa served as an Education Policy Advisor for Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Prior to this role, she served as a Legislative Aide for then help Committee Chairman, Tom Harkin (D-IA) where she managed a portfolio of higher education policy issues and assisted in drafting the Chairman’s Higher Education Act reauthorization proposal.
 
Seating is first come, first seated.

Part of Financial Planning Day @ SIBL!