2025 MADS Immersion

Anna Rose Medley is assistant dean and the chief of staff to Dean Ahalt for the School of Data Science and Society. She has served the university in the Office of the Chancellor since 2013 and worked on a variety of pan-university initiatives and projects, notably, The Tar Heel Bus Tour, the University Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward, Chancellor’s Fellows Program, and the UNC-Chapel Hill Mental Health Summit. Medley joined the leadership team of SDSS in summer of 2022 to support launch of the new school.

From 2004-2013, Medley worked for various members of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC. She was a staff member in the offices of Representative Mike McIntyre (NC-07) and Representative Brad Miller (NC-13). In 2011, she joined the leadership office of then Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and served for two years as director of scheduling and special events. Medley received a B.A. in political science from Chapel Hill in 2003.