#94: Let's Get Personal with E.K. McWilliams, Strategic Response Counsel Lead at Block
What are you doing to follow your sense of adventure? We feel reflective in August as we get ready for a new school year and prepare to say goodbye to summer Fridays. If you're in a reflective mode, if you're in a period of career transition, and/or if you're looking to smile for an entire hour and three minutes, hit play on Episode #94 with E.K. McWilliams, Strategic Response Counsel Lead at Block in Chicago.
E.K. McWilliams leads Strategic Response for Block (formerly Square), a financial technology company that provides payment, banking, and consumer financial services. In that role, E.K. provides counsel in connection with complex investigations, external inquiries, and proactive regulatory compliance initiatives.
Before joining Block, E.K. was Chief Regulatory Counsel at Green Thumb Industries, and an associate and then partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago. Prior to law school, E.K. was also a field organizer, a community organizer and research analyst, and Chief of Staff for the Wisconsin State Legislature.
E.K. has a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters in Comparative Social Policy from Oxford, and a JD from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
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