About the IAPP

Yvette Badu-Nimako is the Interim Executive Director and Vice President of Policy at the National Urban League's Washington Bureau, where she leads policy strategy and provides expertise on civil rights, social justice, and economic empowerment on behalf of the organization.

Yvette has served as the Head of U.S. Policy at Match Group; as Senior Counsel on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and Legislative Director for the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings; as a Counsel & Congressional Liaison for the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; as an Attorney Advisor in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Justice; and as a Counsel for U.S. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. Yvette received her undergraduate degree in Government and English from Georgetown University and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.