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Megan Cruz

Assistant Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Megan leads our Native Economic and Financial Education Empowerment (NEFEE) program. In her role, she focuses on working with tribal nations and Native communities across the United States on implementing economic and personal finance education programs to support economic and financial well-being. NEFEE conducts research, in partnership with Native communities, to address barriers to financial capability and inclusion. She originally joined the Fed with the San Francisco Reserve Bank and has assumed a variety of roles including in credit risk management, currency operations and security. Cruz began her career at Merrill Lynch in investment banking, where she assisted tribal nations and their enterprises in raising more than $1 billion in financing for their gaming and reservation infrastructure projects. She is a member of the Osage Nation.

Education: B.S., Economics, Oklahoma State University

Email: megan.cruz@stls.frb.org

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