Biography
As the director of VOX’s Financial Services Public Affairs Practice, Wexler and her team partner with clients in consumer banking, mortgage lending, electronic payments, financial literacy, consumer finance, insurance, auto finance, foreign exchange, and data security. For the last four years, she has managed the public affairs campaign for the Electronic Payments Coalition, consisting of banks, credit unions, card processors and payment networks interested in maintaining the integrity of the electronic payments system through fair legislation and regulation. Having appeared in television, radio, print and online media, Wexler serves as the on-the-record spokeswoman for this coalition and for the industry at large.
Before joining VOX, Wexler headed Wexler Communications, a public affairs consultancy for financial services clients facing legislative and regulatory challenges in Washington, D.C. Wexler provided strategic counsel to a number of large coalitions of financial services providers. These national consumer education and public awareness campaigns have been recognized and applauded by the media, influential third parties, and policymakers.
Earlier in her career, while at Weber Shandwick|Powell Tate, Wexler devoted considerable time to a multi-year public affairs campaign for the Bankruptcy Issues Council, a coalition of banks, credit unions, and retailers, advocating reform to personal bankruptcy laws. A survey of congressional staff named the reform effort one of 1998’s five most effective campaigns.
A survey of congressional staff named the reform effort one of 1998’s five most effective campaigns.
Wexler began her career in the financial services industry – first working in the mortgage department at Shadow Lawn Savings and Loan in Long Branch, New Jersey, and later as an actuarial assistant at Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance in Holmdel, New Jersey.
She lived in Japan in the early 1990’s, where she taught English to local businessmen and Japanese to American exchange students. Wexler has a Bachelor’s degree from University of Richmond in International Studies, concentrating in Social and Economic Systems. She lives in South Riding, Virginia with her husband, Ron, and their two boys, Alec and Caleb.