VASTA is a 24-year-old non-profit organization founded, grown, and guided by volunteers in the profession. Together we serve the needs of voice and speech professionals all over the world and enrich the field through our activities and initiatives. VASTA is the only organization in the United States dedicated to fostering excellence in the field of voice and speech training. VASTA's current membership includes approximately 500 members from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia; embracing professors, performers, voice, speech, text and dialect coaches, speech/language pathologists, otolaryngologists, coaches in private practice, and acting, movement, singing specialists who are seeking to integrate disciplines, and others interested in the art and science of the human voice.