Managing Director
Vernetta serves as the managing director for USA
Funds®'
debt-management team. She is responsible for key aspects of USA Funds'
early-awareness program, USA Funds Unlock the
Future®; its financial-literacy program,
USA Funds Life
Skills®; as well as
debt-management and retention programs and products. Vernetta plays an
instrumental role in USA Funds' symposium for minority-serving institutions and
in debt-management institute tours.
Vernetta has 25 years of experience as a financial-aid administrator and
served for five years as director of the Standards of Excellence Review Program
of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
She has served on the board of directors of the Educational Services Foundation
of the Mississippi Higher Education Assistance Corporation for eight years. She
was a member of USA Funds' Mississippi Advisory Council, an appointee of the
U.S. Secretary of Education to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial
Assistance, national chair and chair of the board of directors for NASFAA, and
president and chair of the board of directors of the Southern Association of
Student Financial Aid Administrators (SASFAA).
Contact information:
E-mail: vernetta.fairley@usafunds.org
Phone: (866) 497-8723,
Ext. 8006
Fax: (601) 450-3613
P.O. Box 442
Petal, MS
39465-0442