Supporting LGBTQ+ Students

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 US ser­vice mem­bers, vet­er­ans and their fam­i­lies around the world, inter­na­tion­al dis­as­ter response and recov­ery efforts, the Glob­al Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness Cen­ter, the Measles & Rubel­la Ini­tia­tive, and resilien­cy pro­gram­ming part­ner­ships in 14 nations in Asia, Latin Amer­i­ca and Ocea­nia.

Pri­or to this role, Jar­rett led the Red Cross in Los Ange­les and in Mass­a­chu­setts. He has also worked with the Cal­i­for­nia Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion and served as the CEO of GLAAD from 2009 to 2011. Elect­ed as a mem­ber of the Mass­a­chu­setts leg­is­la­ture in 1998, Bar­rios was the first open­ly gay per­son of col­or elect­ed to a state leg­is­la­ture in the Unit­ed States. In the Mass­a­chu­setts Sen­ate he chaired the Pub­lic Safe­ty & Home­land Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee and was the Vice Chair of the Health Care Com­mit­tee. In 2023 he was induct­ed into the LGBTQ+ Vic­to­ry Fund’s Hall of Fame.