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Sonia Garrison is a financial capability specialist with over 20 years' experience in community development and consumer finance. She has extensive research, policy analysis and project management experience in the areas of financial capability, financial coaching, affordable housing, mortgage finance, and consumer banking. Sonia has recently worked with a number of non-profit organizations and government agencies including Urban Institute and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Abt. Associates and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Self-Help Credit Union, and the UNC Center for Community Capital. Prior to becoming a consultant, Sonia worked as a project manager at Self-Help, a community development financial institution and as a senior researcher at the Center for Responsible Lending in Durham, NC.