Background
Forry was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
Forry was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
She attended Saint Kevin Grammar School and Monsignor Ryan Memorial High School in Dorchester before matriculating to Boston College. She graduated from British Columbia"s Carroll School of Management in 1997.
She previously represented the 12th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives after winning a special election in April 2005. Haitian-American, Forry, is the former House Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business. Forry received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University"s Kennedy School of Government in 2014.
After graduating from Boston College, Forry was a legislative assistant, working for then-State Representative Charlotte Golar Richie (Fifth Suffolk District serving Roxbury and Dorchester).
From 2005 to 2013, Forry represented the Commonwealth’s 12th Suffolk House district, a cross-section that includes parts of the town of Milton and the city of Boston, including Dorchester, Hyde Park and Mattapan. In 2009, Forry served as Chair of the Black and Latino Caucus.
That same year, she was appointed Chairman of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses. Nick Collins. She defeated Republican Joseph A. Ureneck in the final election on May 28 and was sworn in on June 14, 2013.
Forry is married to Bill Forry, managing editor of the Reporter Newspapers in Boston.
The couple live in Lower Mills, Dorchester and have four children: John, Conor, Madeline and Norah.