| Term Start: | 24 April 2020 |
| Office2: | Secretary-General of the Modern Revolutionary Party |
| Term Start2: | June 14, 2018[1] |
| President2: | José Ignacio Paliza |
| Vicepresident2: | Gloria Reyes |
| Predecessor2: | Jesús Chu Vásquez Martínez |
| Office3: | Alternate member of the board of directors of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic |
| Term Start3: | 2003 |
| Term End3: | 2004 |
| President3: | José Luis Malkún |
| Party: | Modern Revolutionary Party |
| Birth Date: | 28 March 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic |
| Father: | Hipólito Mejía |
| Mother: | Rosa Gómez |
| Children: | 3, including Juan Garrigó Mejía |
| Occupation: | Politician, economist, businesswoman |
| Blank1: | Hometown |
| Data1: | Gurabo, Dominican Republic |
Rosa Carolina Mejía Gómez de Garrigó (born 28 March 1969) is a Dominican politician, economist, and businesswoman. She became mayor of Distrito Nacional in 2020, the first woman to assume the position.
Rosa Carolina Mejía Gómez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros on 28 March 1969 to Hipólito Mejía, agronomist and President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004, and Rosa Gómez Arias, the former First Lady of the Dominican Republic. Carolina has 2 brothers and 1 sister.[2] [3]
She married Juan Antonio Garrigó Lefeld, insurance and brokerage businessman of Catalan and German descent and they had three children, Juan de Jesús, Diego José, and Isabel Carolina Garrigó Mejía.
In the early 2000s she was a member of the board of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.[4] In 2016 she became the vice presidential candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party.[5]
Mejía de Garrigó was elected General Secretary of her party in the primary elections held on 18 March 2018,[6] and took office on 14 June 2018.[1]
On 24 April 2020, Mejía took office as mayor of Santo Domingo, becoming the first woman to lead the Dominican Republic capital city;[7] she was re-elected on 18 February 2024.[8]