Kim Medina
Special Assistant to Executive Director of DC37 NPP (Non for Profit and Private) Sector Division
Kim Medina is the Special Assistant to the Executive Director of DC37 over the Non for Profit and Private Sector Division, AFSCME, AFL-CIO after the unification of DC 1707 into DC37. DC37 Non for Profit and Private Sector Division consists 20,000 members from five locals: Local 205 Daycare employees, Local95 Head start employees, Local 215 Social Services employees, Local 253 teaching and Related Organizations, Local 389 Home Care. She was the Executive Director of the former DC1707, AFSCME, AFL-CIO. She was elected in 2017 and has worked expeditiously to mobilize and invigorate the Council's membership, leadership and staff for the challenges facing the labor movement.
Kim Medina is Bronx-born and was educated in the New York Public School System, attending Christopher Columbus High School and graduating from LaGuardia Community College. The child of a chief shop steward in the District Council of Carpenters, she learned trade unionism as a child and it never left her. Her grandfather helped organize the Hispanic Postal Association in New York in the late 1920's, a precursor of today's postal unions. She was President of the Teaching and Related
Organizations Local 253 of District Council 1707, American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees from 1996 until May 15, 2017. She also served as President of the Council for many years.
She worked at AHRC at the Betty Pendler New York League Work Center since November 1987. She was a Community Support Professional and she took pride in her job assisting people with special needs and developmentally disabled adults.
She fights hard for the rights of Direct Care Workers and all workers in the Council. She is active in pushing for better state mandates for the Direct Care workers and for developmentally disabled adults; she placed a priority and helped achieve parity for the Council's Public Center-Based Day Care/ Head Start employees. She is actively lobbying for greater workplace safety provisions and increases for home care and direct care wages with the New York State legislature.
Kim Medina is Bronx-born and was educated in the New York Public School System, attending Christopher Columbus High School and graduating from LaGuardia Community College. The child of a chief shop steward in the District Council of Carpenters, she learned trade unionism as a child and it never left her. Her grandfather helped organize the Hispanic Postal Association in New York in the late 1920's, a precursor of today's postal unions. She was President of the Teaching and Related
Organizations Local 253 of District Council 1707, American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees from 1996 until May 15, 2017. She also served as President of the Council for many years.
She worked at AHRC at the Betty Pendler New York League Work Center since November 1987. She was a Community Support Professional and she took pride in her job assisting people with special needs and developmentally disabled adults.
She fights hard for the rights of Direct Care Workers and all workers in the Council. She is active in pushing for better state mandates for the Direct Care workers and for developmentally disabled adults; she placed a priority and helped achieve parity for the Council's Public Center-Based Day Care/ Head Start employees. She is actively lobbying for greater workplace safety provisions and increases for home care and direct care wages with the New York State legislature.
