Jarrett Tomás Barrios

Jarrett Barrios serves as the senior vice president for International Services and Services to Armed Forces at the American Red Cross. In his role, he provides oversight and direction for all global American Red Cross programs, including support to U.S. service members, veterans and their families around the world; international disaster response and recovery efforts; the Global Disaster Preparedness Center; the Measles and Rubella Initiative; and resiliency programming partnerships in 14 nations in Asia, Latin America and Oceania. He also represents the American Red Cross within the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Previous to this role, Barrios served as the senior vice president for Strategic Community and Programmatic Initiatives at the California Community Foundation, prior to which he led the American Red Cross of Los Angeles and the Massachusetts Red Cross. He has also been the CEO of GLAAD and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. From 1999 to 2007, he served in the Massachusetts Legislature, first in House of Representatives and then as the first Latino elected to the Massachusetts Senate, where he chaired the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee and was the Vice Chair of the Health Care Committee.

Barrios is a currently appointed to the board of Covered California, and an elected board member to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Center on Law and Social Policy. Barrios earned his A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard College, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from California State University in Los Angeles.