Student Loan Program Negotiating Committee

2011-2012

Constituency Primary Alternate

Students Mr. Getachew Kassa

Legislative Director

United States Student Association

Mr. Abou Amara, Jr.

President

Graduate and Professional Student 

Association 

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Legal 

assistance to 

students

Deanne Loonin

National Consumer Law Center

Ms. Radhika Singh Miller

Program Manager 

Educational Debt Relief and 

Outreach, Equal Justice Works

Consumer 

advocacy 

organizations

Jennifer Mishory

Deputy Director

Young Invincibles

Maureen Thompson

The Hastings Group, LLC

Financial aid 

administrators

Margaret Rodriguez,

Senior Associate Director of 

Financial Aid, University of 

Michigan

Chair, National Direct Student 

Loan Coalition

Elizabeth Hicks

Executive Director Student Financial 

Services Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology

Business 

officers and 

bursars

David Glezerman

Assistant Vice President and 

University Bursar 

Temple University

Maria Livolsi

Director

Student Loan Service Center

State University of New York

Institutional 

third-party 

servicers

Robert Perrin

President

Williams & Fudge, Inc.

State 

attorneys 

general

Todd Leatherman

Executive Director

Office of Consumer Protection

Office of the Kentucky Attorney 

General

Michele Casey

Assistant Attorney General

Consumer Fraud Bureau Office of 

the Illinois Attorney General
Two-year 

public 

institutions

Ms. Cristi Millard

Director of Financial Aid

Salt Lake Community College

Mr. Chris Christensen

Director of Financial Aid

Johnson County Community 

College, Kansas

Four-year 

public 

institutions

Ms. Kris Wright

Director, Office of Student 

Finance, University of Minnesota

Executive Council Member and 

Secretary, National Direct Student 

Loan Coalition

Elaine Papas-Varas

University Director of Student 

Financial Aid and Director of the 

Primary Care Practitioner Loan 

Redemption Program of New Jersey

University of Medicine and 

Dentistry of New Jersey

Private 

nonprofit 

institutions

Yvonne Gutierrez-Sandoval

Senior Associate Director of 

Financial Aid

Pitzer College

Jeffrey A. Gall

Associate Dean, Office of Student 

Financial Services

Georgetown University

Private forprofit 

institutions

Tom Sakos

Director of Student Lending and 

Regulatory Quality Assurance

DeVry Inc.

Anthony Fragomeni

Director of Governmental Affairs, 

Empire Education Group; 

Chairman, American Association of 

Cosmetology Schools’ Government 

Relations Team

Guaranty 

agencies and 

guaranty 

agency 

servicers

Betsy Mayotte

Director, Regulatory Compliance 

and Privacy, American Student 

Assistance

Scott Giles

Vice President for Operations, 

Social Marketing and Strategy

Vermont Student Assistance 

Corporation

Lenders, 

secondary 

markets and 

loan servicers

Robert Sandlin

Director of Policy and Compliance

Higher Education Servicing 

Corporation

(Servicer for North Texas Higher 

Education Authority)

Vicki Shipley

Senior Advisor

National Council of Higher 

Education Loan Programs

Accrediting 

agencies

Albert Gray

Executive Director and CEO

Accrediting Council for 

Independent Colleges and Schools

Sharon Tanner

CEO

National League for Nursing 

Accrediting Commission
U.S. 

Department of 

Education

Pamela Moran

Pamela.Moran@ed.gov

202-502-7732

Gail McLarnon

Gail.McLarnon@ed.gov

202-219-7048

Facilitator Charles Pou

cpou@manhattanstrategy.com

202-887-1037

Chip Cameron

ccameron@manhattanstrategy.com

240-205-2091

2/2/2012