Harvey Rosenfield
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| Born | Harvey Rosenfield September 7, 1952 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Lawyer, author, political activist, consumer advocate |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Amherst College, Georgetown Law School |
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Harvey Rosenfield (born 1952) is an American lawyer, author and consumer advocate. In 1985, he founded Consumer Watchdog, a nationally recognized, nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group. He serves as the group's counsel.
He is best known for drafting, and organizing the campaign for, Proposition 103, a ballot proposal that rolled back automobile insurance rates in California. In 2014, the Consumer Federation of America estimated that Proposition 103 has saved California consumers over $100 billion since 1988.
Rosenfield's consumer advocacy work focuses on insurance company overcharges, health care patient protection, and other consumer rights.
Rosenfield was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1952 and grew up in Randolph. His father was an accountant and his mother, a painter and poet. In 1970, Harvey Rosenfield was involved in his first grass roots campaign: the "Smoke Out" at Randolph High School. The campaign encouraged community members to give up smoking for a day and donate the monetary equivalent of a pack of cigarettes to a scholarship fund. Rosenfield's high school guidance counselor, Art Mullaney, originated the idea and Rosenfield attributes his "success to [Mullaney]" and others who mentored him. The group raised $4500 and attracted the attention of the American Cancer Society, which used the "smokeout" theme in its "Great American Smokeout" campaign, beginning in 1977.
In 1970 Rosenfield entered Amherst College and studied psychology, though he later decided to pursue studies in law. After graduating magna cum laude in 1974, Rosenfield moved to Washington, D.C. to intern with Massachusetts Congressman Michael Harrington. In the fall of 1974, he began a joint degree in law and international affairs at Georgetown University.
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