Medina Orana
Head of Academic Services and Adjunct Faculty
Medina Orana
Head of Academic Services and Adjunct Faculty
Bio
Ms. Orana's experience in project and change management spans over 10 years. Currently, Medina is a lecturer in Management Unit as well as the Head of Academic Services at Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo. Medina also teaches the International Project Management Preparatory Training Program at the Training and Development Institute and has lectured Change and Project Management components at University of Sussex, University of California in Los Angeles and University of Prishtina. Among others, Medina has overseen the transposition of the European Directives on Nuclear Safety and Security as well as European Atomic Energy Community – Euratom Treaty into the legislative framework of Kosovo. She has chaired and coordinated the regional conference “Threats to Nuclear Security” and has founded the eco-tourism enterprise "Ambienturë." She is currently running the Roaming Erasmus Regional Project.
Medina completed her post-graduate studies in Entrepreneurship and Human Element in Leadership at UCLA - University of California in Los Angeles, her graduate studies at University of Sussex with a Master of Science in Economics and her undergraduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo with concentrations in Management and Economics. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.
Medina received the RIT Provost’s Award for Excellence in Advising which recognizes advisors who have demonstrated exceptional academic advising of students and outstanding support of students and their success in 2021 and the Emerging Leader Award from Kosovo US Alumni Association in 2022 which recognized outstanding contributions by launched crucial initiatives to improve their communities such as the Community Greenhouse to serve as an ecology lab for University of Prishtina as well as the Girl Power Science Fair to motivate high school girls to pursue a career in science.