Nanette Barragán
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 44th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Janice Hahn |
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Nanette Díaz Barragán September 15, 1976 Harbor City, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | San Pedro, California |
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University of California, Los Angeles (BA) University of Southern California (JD) |
| Website | Government website |
Nanette Diaz Barragán /ˈbærəɡən/ (born September 15, 1976) is an American attorney and politician from the state of California who is a member to the United States House of Representatives for California's 44th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She served as the first Latina ever elected to the Hermosa Beach City Council.
Barragán was born in Harbor City, California and grew up the youngest of eleven siblings, raised by immigrants from Mexico in Carson and the surrounding area, where she attended Stephen White Junior High School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000 and her Juris Doctor degree in 2005 at the University of Southern California, where she served on the Interdisciplinary Law Journal.
During college and until 2003, Barragán served as the Executive Director of the Gillian S. Fuller Foundation (formerly called the Fuller Foundation) where she was in charge of funding worthy nonprofits focused on education, the environmental and youth programs. Funded organizations included Heal the Bay, the Nature Conservancy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Para Los Niños, Proyecto Pastoral, Literacy Partners among others.
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