Baradaran has expertise in banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. She’s the author of How the Other Half Banks, which looks at the U.S.’s two-tier banking system and predatory fringe lenders, and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. She’s also managing director, UCI Policy Lab: AI observatory for Access to Credit, and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Prior to UCI Law, Baradaran was, among other things, a policy advisor on Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, and a member of the Biden-Harris transition team (for the Treasury and Federal Reserve).