Draft:Juan Pablo Jaramillo

About
Juan Pablo Jaramillo (born 1993) is a Colombian-American labor and environmental activist in Massachusetts. He is currently serving his first term as a city councillor at-large in the City of Revere, the largest city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, behind the City of Boston.

Early life and Education
Jaramillo and his parents, immigrated to the United States from Colombia. He was raised in Revere, attending Revere Public Schools from grade one and graduating from Revere High School in 2012.

A formerly undocumented immigrant, Juan Pablo began his career in advocacy as an immigrant rights advocate in the Greater Boston Region. He attended the University of Massachusetts while being an organizer and working as a janitor alongside his parents at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Career
After college Juan Pablo Jaramillo worked in the Massachusetts State Senate as the Legislative Director for State Senator Joseph Boncore. Since then he has been working in the labor and environmental movements. In late 2019 and early 2020, Jaramillo helped organize some 400 workers in Connecticut as a political organizer for SEIU Local 32BJ.

In 2021 Juan Pablo ran for the open seat left by then-speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Bob DeLeo, for whom he interned in college. After finishing a close second Juan Pablo Jaramillo helped run the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts as its interim Chief Administrative Officer and then ran a the largest successful independent expenditure PAC in the 2022 gubernatorial election on behalf of the Environmental League of Massachusetts Action PAC in an effort to elect climate champions up and down the ballot, from state representatives to the governor.

Juan Pablo Jaramillo is back in the labor movement where he fights to pass pro-worker legislation on behalf of the members of SEIU Local 509 at the municipal, state, and federal levels.

In addition to sitting on the Revere City Council, Jaramillo is a member of the Massachusetts Democratic Party State Committee to which he was elected in 2018.

Awards & Recognitions
ALX 100, 2023

Latino 30 Under 30, 2022