Juan Leyton, Executive Director

Juan Leyton has devoted his career to economic justice and building power in low-income communities. He was an activist in his native Chile, before moving to the Boston area where he worked as a community organizer for eight years at the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council. Juan served as the Executive Director of City Life/Vida Urbana for six years. He expanded City Life from a single-issue organization based in Jamaica Plain to a city wide organization with a multi-issue focus and multi-ethnic constituency. He most recently served as a project program officer for the Solidago Foundation, a national foundation invested in developing a progressive movement through funding strategies. Juan has worked with organizations around the country on issues like worker and immigrant rights, tax reform, corporate accountability and gentrification. We are excited to welcome his leadership as N2N-MA enters our next phase of building a movement for economic justice.