Camille M. Castro
Senior Associate PBGC Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate
Washington, DC
Ms. Castro joined the Office of the Advocate in October 2015 as the Senior Associate PBGC Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate. In this role, she helps participants and plan sponsors resolve issues and disputes with PBGC. She also assists participants who are looking for information about their lost pension plans
Ms. Castro previously worked in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Treasury where she was counsel to the Office of D.C. Pensions. She also worked as a staff attorney for the District of Columbia Retirement Board.
Ms. Castro graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in Economics. She received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law where she served as Form and Accuracy Editor of the Syracuse Law Review. She received her LL.M. in Taxation with a certificate in Employee Benefits Law from Georgetown University Law Center. She also earned a Certificate of Achievement in Public Plan Policy from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and a Certificate of Completion for the Behavioral Insights and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. In 2019, Ms. Castro received the Young Practitioners’ Award from the International Pension & Employee Benefits Lawyers Association for a paper she wrote on pension registries and locating missing benefits. She is a member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.
Emily Spreiser
ASSOCIATE PBGC PARTICIPANT AND PLAN SPONSOR ADVOCATE
Washington, DC
Ms. Spreiser joined the Office of the Advocate in October 2022 as Associate PBGC Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate. In this role, she helps participants and plan sponsors resolve disputes with PBGC and also assists participants who are looking for information about their lost pension plans.
Ms. Spreiser previously worked at the non-profit Pension Rights Center, where she directed a federally funded, national legal program designed to help workers, retirees and their spouses obtain earned retirement benefits. She has also served as director of the professional development department in Freddie Mac’s Legal Division.
Ms. Spreiser graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Politics. She received her J.D. from the Boston University School of Law, where she received the Dean’s Award for her coursework in Employee Benefits Law. While in law school, she also worked for the U.S. Employee Benefits Security Administration. In 2021, she received the ERISA Simplification award from the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel for a paper she wrote on the disclosure rights of former spouses seeking to obtain retirement benefits after divorce. She is a member of the bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.