Bayoán has dedicated his professional and personal life working towards equity focused solutions for historically marginalized communities as a community organizer, policy advocate and most recently, as a philanthropic change maker.

After graduating from Boston College in 2006, Bayoán began his career as a labor organizer leading campaigns to unionize airport newsstand and food service works in Newark, NJ and New York, NY. Prior to his transition to Los Angeles, Bayoán was a community organizer and planner at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston working on sustainable economic development, food justice, and community land trust initiatives.

After receiving his Masters of Public Policy at Tufts University, he moved to Los Angeles and spent a year at the East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) working on affordable housing development and supporting the advancement of a new community land trust with residents of Boyle Heights and East LA. Subsequently, he served as the Co-President of the newly formed community land trust, Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre. After ELACC, he shifted to the foundation space as the Senior Project Manager at the Liberty Hill Foundation leading working on environmental health and justice programmatic efforts across Los Angeles County. While living in Oaxaca, México he was hired at Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) to develop a new Power Building & Justice grantmaking strategy and heading HIP’s Multi-Racial Democratic Building work.