Meet Regina Medina
Regina Medina is a correspondent for the MPR News Race, Class and Communities team, where she covers events, people and issues in north Minneapolis. She also reports on feature stories involving diverse topics such as Christmas traditions, labor violations and soda fountain taprooms.
After college, Regina moved to Venezuela, where her parents are from, and taught English before working for the English-language newspaper The Daily Journal. She then worked for various newspapers in the U.S., including with the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in upstate New York and Philadelphia Daily News.
Regina was named Employee of the Year in 2007 at Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. She also received a Keystone Award for news feature writing for her story “Test Drive Turned Deadly in Lancaster County.”
Regina graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, with a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies.
As a newish Minnesotan, Regina is excited to explore the state, particularly Duluth, Grand Marais and the Boundary Waters. She has already taken an ice dip as part of an MPR series on winter fun and hopes to try curling and the sauna-to-ice-water adventure next.
Recent Contributions
- Minneapolis mayor acts to deter possible federal crackdown as Somali community braces for ICE
- What to know as temporary protected status for Somalis in Minnesota could end
- Two professional women's volleyball leagues announce new Minnesota teams
- MSP food workers announce strike deadline before Thanksgiving rush
- New Latino supermarket offers pieces of home for its Richfield customers
- Activists claim divestment win, but Minnesota board says policy hasn’t changed
- Here's a breakdown of how St. Paul residents voted in the mayor's race
- Minnesota voters head to the polls with mayoral candidates and school measures in mind
- Live from the polls on Election Day in Minnesota
- Free food boxes help federal workers at MSP weather the shutdown