Maureen Yap is Vice President of Public Policy and Senior Counsel for Fair Lending at the National Fair Housing Alliance. Maureen focuses on fair lending, appraisal discrimination, automated systems and AI, and housing finance reform. Maureen has worked in fair housing and fair lending since 1995. Prior roles include working on a range of civil rights and consumer protection issues at the Federal Reserve Board, including leading the Board’s Fair Lending Enforcement Section and founding the Unfair and Deceptive Acts or Practices (UDAP) Section. Maureen was also an Associate at the law firms of Relman Colfax PLLC and Buckley LLP.