Raúl works with Demand Progress/Demand Progress Education Fund and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund to develop a regulatory response to the Facebook Libra Project and similar efforts. Previously, he worked at the New Economy Project, where he provided direct legal assistance to low-income New Yorkers, engaged in impact litigation, and gave strategic support to advocates and activists with respect to financial technology and the development of a municipal bank. He also served as Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Raúl is involved in multiple scholastic efforts to promote a progressive vision of law and economics. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.