Kathryn Medina

About

Kathryn Medina is executive vice president of People & Culture. She serves as the Bank’s chief human resources officer and OMWI Director. In her role, she leads the Bank’s people strategy and oversees its internal communications functions.

Ms. Medina joined the Chicago Fed in 2016, bringing over twenty years of HR experience to her role as a vice president of talent management. Prior to joining the Bank, she held senior HR roles in the private sector and in the federal government. In 2017, she was promoted to vice president of human resources and in 2019, she became senior vice-president of People & Culture, where, in addition to joining the Executive Committee, she held various system leadership roles related to the advancement of HR and talent initiatives.

Ms. Medina holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Strayer University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and earned her Master of Education in Global Human Resource Development from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources through the Society for Human Resources (SHRM-SCP) and HRCI (SPHR) and is a Certified Executive Coach through the Center for Executive Coaching.

Ms. Medina has been a keynote speaker and panelist on HR strategy at premier organizations including the Brookings Institute and NASA. She was a member of the board of TBI, a subsidiary of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), and was an adjunct professor for Georgetown University, where she taught strategic human capital management in their Graduate School of Continuing Studies.