John Sigel joined the Project on Predatory Student Lending as an Access to Justice Fellow in 2020. John is a retired partner formerly in the Corporate Department of WilmerHale, where he was a member of the debt finance practice and the bankruptcy and restructuring practice. He served on the firm’s pro bono committee for many years and represented Boston-based not-for-profit institutions on a pro bono basis in obtaining institutional financing for their operations and capital improvements. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. John is a member of the council of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is a former secretary and trustee of the Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust. John is a graduate of Middlebury College and Cornell Law.