Serving the Eighth District and the Nation
Annual Report 2025
Engaging with the Communities We Serve
people reached through more than 1,700 engagements with St. Louis Fed staff. These connections—during which our team met, listened to and shared information with stakeholders—were up 23% from the previous year.
speaking engagements by St. Louis Fed experts who shared economic updates, research findings and educational tools with stakeholders.
St. Louis-area leaders convened at the St. Louis Fed to discuss economic recovery following the May 2025 tornado that impacted our District.
Engaging with the people and communities we serve across the Fed’s Eighth District provided St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem with real-time insights into economic conditions and emerging trends in 2025 to help inform monetary policy. Our outreach efforts also helped increase the public’s understanding of the work we do and how we do it.
Building Relationships across the Eighth District
This animation shows the 100 counties where St. Louis Fed teams, including President Musalem, engaged stakeholders in 2025.
In April, the St. Louis Fed hosted a Fed Listens event as part of the Federal Reserve’s 2025 framework review of its monetary policy strategies, tools and communication practices. The event featured remarks from President Musalem and Christopher Waller, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
- Business and community leaders from the St. Louis Fed’s six advisory councils shared important insights about how the U.S. economy and monetary policy were affecting daily lives and livelihoods in the Eighth District.
- Topics focused on labor market conditions, inflation, and the communication and transmission of monetary policy.
St. Louis Fed regional executives Matuschka Lindo Briggs in Little Rock, Ark., Seema Sheth in Louisville, Ky., and Douglas Scarboro in Memphis, Tenn., also gathered economic insights when meeting with the people we serve throughout the District. These engagements contributed to a more complete snapshot of the Eighth District economy.
Louisville Branch Regional Executive Seema Sheth speaks during a November 2025 roundtable with graduates from an Amped business incubator program in Louisville, Ky.
– Kathy Mazzarella, past chairman of the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors; and Tom Melzer, former president of the St. Louis Fed (excerpt from their Nov. 16, 2025, op-ed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and stltoday.com)
Tornado Relief and Other Community Efforts
Otis Williams, interim president and executive director of the St. Louis Development Corp., discusses tornado recovery efforts during an event at the St. Louis Fed in September 2025.
In the aftermath of the May 2025 tornado that devastated parts of St. Louis, Bank staff worked with key groups to convene regional leaders focused on economic recovery and resilience strategies for low- and moderate-income communities.
We brought together local government and business leaders, philanthropic organizations, banks and credit unions, and community development organizations.
Together, participants discussed coordinated approaches to support disaster recovery efforts in affected neighborhoods.
$29,500+
donated by employees to St. Louis-based hunger relief organization Operation Food Search during the Bank’s 30th annual food drive.
$311,073
raised by employees for the United Way of Greater St. Louis—a Bank record.
110
tornado relief food kits donated and assembled by employees, followed by collections of other needed supplies.
St. Louis Fed employees volunteer to sort and organize items at Operation Food Search in June 2025.
A variety of guests appeared in the Your Fed, Your Voice series in 2025. Watch on YouTube, or listen anywhere you get podcasts.
Engaging Conversations across the District
In 2025, the Your Fed, Your Voice series highlighted stories of people from across the Eighth District who are part of the Fed’s work. Those featured included Fed employees, advisory council members and stakeholder groups with whom Bank staff regularly connect. Stakeholders and the public viewed these Your Fed, Your Voice videos more than 1 million times in 2025.