Michael D. Mitchell serves as the Vice President of Fair Lending for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). In this position Mr. Mitchell spearheads the Coalition’s systemic fair lending initiatives, leads the national mystery shopping/testing program, leads efforts to combat predatory lending, conducts fair lending training, manages the coalitions enforcement efforts, provides compliance and best practice partnership services to lenders and housing providers, provides technical assistance and fair housing capacity building and training to community organizations. Michael brings to NCRC a longtime commitment to civil rights, and economic justice, having worked in the field of civil rights law enforcement for over 15 years.

Michael also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Predatory Lending. He is also a faculty member of the National Fair Housing Training Academy.

Before joining NCRC, Michael worked for seven years with the Equal Rights Center and the Fair Housing Council of Greater Washington where he served that organization as the Director of Enforcement, and the Director of the Fair Housing Center of Suburban Maryland. In these positions Michael conducted testing of housing providers, public accommodations, insurance companies, and lenders, and participated in several cases that led to landmark decisions. Michael was also involved in fair housing planning, expanding accessibility, education and outreach, and voluntary compliance training. From 1989 to1995, Michael worked for the City of Rockville, Maryland, where he initially served Rockville's Human Rights Commission as a Human Rights Investigator and later served as the City's Human Rights Officer. In this position he worked to enforce Rockville's Human Rights Ordinance as it pertained to discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. Prior to coming to Washington, Michael practiced law in the Oakland, California for three years, working both as a solo practitioner and serving as an Associate in the Law offices of Richard R. Wright. Michael is an honors graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia and a graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law, at the University of California, Berkeley.