Zixta Q. Martinez — Assistant Director of Community Affairs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Ms. Zixta Q. Martinez serves as Assistant Director of Community Affairs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ms. Martinez lead the team's outreach to consumer advocacy groups and community organizations. Previously, she was Senior Director of Industry and State Relations at Freddie Mac, Director at the National Fair Housing Alliance, Legislative Staff Attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Housing Policy Analyst for the National Council of La Raza, and Associate Staffer at the Housing and Community Development Subcommittee of the Banking Finance and Urban Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ms. Martinez served as Director of Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. She is a graduate of Yale College, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Miami School of Law.