Brenda M. Brown

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Brenda M. Brown, B.B.A.
Director of Financial Aid

Telephone: 305-284-5032   |   Office: A312B
E-mail: bbrown@law.miami.edu

Brenda M. Brown, director of financial aid, holds a B.B.A. from the University of Miami, where she has worked for more than 25 years.

The first fourteen and a half years she worked at the University of Miami Office of Financial Assistance Services, where she held many positions including financial aid advisor, delivery and scholarship coordinator, and various assistant director positions which included major responsibilities in areas such as delivery, verification, publications and staff development.

Her last position in that office was as systems manager, a position where she managed and supported the financial aid system for the main, law and medical campuses. In 2002, she joined the Law School's financial aid office as the associate director, and was promoted to director in 2005.

Brown is currently serving on the Graduate & Professional Initiatives Committee with the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).

She is also serving as the 2010 Conference Committee Chair on the 2009-2010 Executive Board of the Southern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (SASFAA). In the past, she served as a member of the NASFAA Student Access & Diversity Committee, the SASFAA 2008-2009 Executive Board as the Management Institute Committee Chair and two-year terms as a member of SASFAA Governance & Planning and the Professional Advancement Committees.

She has also served on the Executive Board of the Florida Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators from 2002-2007 in several leadership capacities. In addition, Brown has participated in many training and workshop programs for national, state and regional organizations.

She has also been actively involved on campus in presenting financial aid sessions to students, parents, colleagues and specific program attendees.