Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto is a Regional Member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Society (NSS).

She is the founder and chapter president of National Space Society of Phoenix and the Astronaut Hopefuls of Arizona, and serves as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Solar System Ambassador (2004-present). She is a veteran of the Mars Desert Research Station serving on Crew 36 as Crew Geologist on the first all-female crew to a Mars analogue station in Utah in March 2005 and Commander of a private F.L.A.M.E. mission in June 2005 and will be commanding a mission in March 2007.

Zabala-Aliberto is currently a senior undergraduate student within the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. She is the educational outreach coordinator for the Arizona State University NASA Space Photography laboratory and caters to educators, students and members of the general public providing educational outreach pertaining to human and robotic space exploration. She recently was assinged to work on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission which launches in October 2008. Zabala-Aliberto has presented at invited talks and gives lectures to schools and space related venues. She enjoys hiking, camping, aviation, and Clive Cussler's novels.