Vanessa Palmer has been promoted to division data principal in Community Development and Engagement (CDE) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. In this senior professional role, Palmer will lead the division’s data practices, oversee its suite of data products, and support its specialized technical needs, including support for the Center for Indian Country Development’s research in Indian Country and CDE’s focus on low‑ to moderate‑income communities.
Palmer joined the Bank in 2020 as a data scientist. Most recently she served as CDE’s data director and acting community development research director, where she played a central role in shaping the division’s data strategy.
Her prior professional roles focused on supporting a range of private and nonprofit organizations in designing systems and building data products to enable evidence-based decisions.
Palmer holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a master’s degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System, the nation’s central bank. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is responsible for the Ninth Federal Reserve District, which includes Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis participates in setting national monetary policy, supervises numerous banking organizations, and provides a variety of payments services to financial institutions and the U.S. government.