Barbara Gomes-Beach

Barbara Gomes-Beach was a community organizer and HIV/AIDS activist in Boston. She was the executive director of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition, a nonprofit AIDS prevention and outreach organization in Boston, until her death in 2017.

Gomes-Beach was born in Oakdale, Wareham, MA. She attended Wareham High School. She completed her undergraduate degree in political science from University of Massachusetts Boston and received a graduate degree in city planning from MIT. Her MA thesis on STEM pre-college programs for youth of color was supervised by Mel King. She was of Cape Verdean, Portuguese and African heritage. She was the mother of American actor, Michael Beach.