Lucía Trujillo, JD - Senior Law Coordinator

Lucía Trujillo is a law graduate of New College of California, School of Law in San Francisco, CA.   She obtained her dual Bachelors of Science degrees in Business Administration and Government with a minor in Spanish from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California shortly after she studied Mexican Culture and Literature in the Center for Bilingual Studies in Cuernavaca, México.  Ms Trujillo is the third eldest of six; she was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California where she received a private and public education.  She is the second in her family to have attended college and the first to have received a legal education.

She began her work at La Raza in 2002 as a summer intern in the Workers' Rights and Senior Law programs and continued interning in the Worker's Rights program until December 2004. While obtaining her degree, she participated in a number of organizations on campus, such as, the New College of California Law School Journal as a Senior Law Editor for 3 years while simultaneously working for the Admissions Office of the Law School.

Lucía was hired as the Housing Law Advocate in 2005 and quickly promoted within the year to Housing Law Coordinator.  In this role, she has assisted hundreds of tenants through the unlawful detainer litigation process, including many favorable settlements as well as educated and empowered tenant's to stand up for their right's. Lucía is currently the Senior Law Coordinator. While at La Raza Lucía has participated as the Union's Shop Steward, SEIU Local 1021 while on numerous committees which have promoted the strength of the organization.  In the past, Lucía has been active in organizations such as Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project (CYLP), Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival Board, M.E.Ch.A., and United Farm Workers to name a few.  Whenever Lucia has the opportunity, she visits her father Rogelio Trujillo in Jerez, Zacatecas, México.  Her father has been her role model and the source of influence which has made her a strong, educated, and proud Chicana.