caption district state_senate succeeded religion party preceded state_house birth_date term_start residence spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
barrios addressing glaad , 2009 middlesex , suffolk and essex 28th middlesex massachusetts anthony d. galluccio edward g. connolly catholic february 2014 democrat tom birmingham alvin thompson massachusetts 16 october 1968 january 2003 january 1999 cambridge , massachusetts doug hattaway -lrb- divorced -rrb- jarrett barrios microphone.jpg jarrett barrios
 july 2007 december 2002 jarrett tomás barrios harvard -rrb- college -lrb- b.a. -rrb- georgetown university -lrb- j.d.
jarrett barrios

jarrett tomás barrios -lrb- born october 16 , 1968 -rrb- is the chief executive officer of the american red cross los angeles chapter/disaster services , a former politician and activist .
prior to this , he served at the ceo of the american red cross of massachusetts .
barrios served as a member of both the massachusetts house of representatives and the massachusetts senate and became the first latino and first openly gay man elected to the massachusetts senate .
he subsequently served as president of the blue cross and blue shield of massachusetts foundation and , later , of the gay & lesbian alliance against defamation -lrb- glaad -rrb- .
the son of a cuban-american carpenter and a cuban-american social worker in tampa , florida , barrios moved to cambridge , massachusetts at the age of 17 to study at harvard college , after graduating from jefferson high school in tampa .
after graduating in 1990 with high honors and working for the boston city council , he obtained his law degree with honors from georgetown university .
eisenhower fellowships selected jarrett barrios as a usa eisenhower fellow in 2009 .
