Since July 2025, Medina Jackson, MSW, has served as the Director of the Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education (P.R.I.D.E). Division of the Office of Child Development.  Medina was part of the Race and Early Childhood Collaborative, (the team that helped develop the P.R.I.D.E. Program), has served as the P.R.I.D.E. Director of Engagement since 2017, and has been with the Office of Child Development since 2010.  She brings 20+ years of experience in race, youth and families, education, arts and culture, community engagement and non-profit management.

Originally from South Berkeley, California, she came to Pittsburgh in 2001 and obtained her MSW (Community Organization and Social Administration concentration) from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003 and has been committed to the city ever since. Medina is also a mother, creative producer, plant-based culinary enthusiast, poet and Hip Hop artist, and enjoys playing basketball in her spare time.