Draft:Juan Pablo Jaramillo


Juan Pablo Jaramillo
Member Revere City Council At-Large
Assumed office
January 1, 2024
Preceded byGerry Visconti
Chair Economic Development and Planning Committee
Assumed office
January 1, 2024
Preceded byMarc Silvestri
Chair Climate, Sustainability, and Worforce Committee
Assumed office
January 1, 2024
Preceded byCommittee Created in 2024
Personal details
Born1993 (age 30–31)
Medellin, Colombia
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseCrystal M. Villegas (m. 2021)
Children1
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston (BS)

About edit

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[1] in the City of Revere, the largest city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, behind the City of Boston.

Early life and Education edit

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.[2]

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 edit

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. [3]

Electoral history edit

2023 Revere at-large City Council election (Elect 5)[4]
Candidate Votes %
Marc Silvestri (incumbent) 3,668 37.97
Robert J. Haas III 3,611 37.38
Anthony Zambuto (incumbent) 3,484 36.00
Juan Pablo Jaramillo 3,183 32.95
Michelle Kelley 2,774 28.71
Anthony Parziale 2,229 23.07
Alexander Rhalimi 2,134 22.09
Donald Martelli 1,773 18.35
Stephen Damiano 1,620 16.77
Wayne D. Rose 13.20 13.66
Write-in 41 0.004
Total votes 48,300 100


2021 Democratic Primary - Massachusetts House of Representatives' 19th Suffolk district[5]
Candidate Votes %
Jeffrey Turco 1,706 36.15
Juan Pablo Jaramillo 1,418 30.00
Alicia DelVento 1,226 25.98
Valentino Capobianco 361 3.73
Write-in 8 0.001
Total votes 4,719 100

Awards & Recognitions edit

ALX 100, 2023[6]

Latino 30 Under 30, 2022[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Revere City Council". revere.org. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  2. ^ Staff, Revere Journal (April 24, 2023). "Jaramillo announces At-Large Council run". Revere Journal. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  3. ^ "Members of the Democratic State Committee". www.massdems.org. Massachusetts Democratic Party. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  4. ^ "City of Revere Muncipal Election - November 7, 2023 City Councilor At Large" (PDF). www.revere.org. City of Revere. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  5. ^ "Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - March 2, 2021 2021 State Representative Special Democratic Primary". www.electionstats.state.ma.us. William Francis Galvin, Secretary of State. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  6. ^ "Amplify Latinx - September 14, 2023 Honoring 100 Local Latinx Leaders". www.amplifylatinx.com. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  7. ^ "El Mundo Boston - November 5, 2022 2021 Juan Pablo Jaramillo - 2022 Latino 30 Under 30". www.elmundoboston.com/el-latino-30-under-30-regreso-por-todo-lo-alto/. Retrieved February 15, 2024.