Joanna K. Darcus has served as Senior Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel since February 2021. She previously worked at the National Consumer Law Center where she focused on consumer financial protection litigation and higher education policy issues facing low-income people and communities of color. Prior to that, Joanna was a supervising attorney at Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia where she represented hundreds of low-income consumers sued by debt collectors or struggling with student loans. Before law school, she was a case manager/paralegal at Juvenile Law Center.

She is a graduate of Duke University School of Law and Williams College.