With the student debt crisis spiraling out of control, some media outlets have called it a “national emergency.” Outpacing most other borrowings by consumers,…
Alan Michael Collinge
Alan Michael Collinge is the founder of StudentLoanJustice.org, the first grassroots organization in the United States to advocate for student loan borrowers. Since founding the organization in 2005, Collinge has been featured on “60 Minutes” and in numerous print publications, including Fortune magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, Village Voice, and Inside Higher Ed. He has published editorials in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Hill. Before founding StudentLoanJustice.Org, Collinge was an associate scientist of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology and the regional project director for a government loan program administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation.