Yunuen Trujillo

Lay Minister, Author

Yunuen Trujillo (she/her/hers) is a Catholic lay minister, author, faith-based community organizer, and an immigration and workers’ rights attorney. As a lay minister, she has served in Young Adult Ministry for more than 15 years and now serves in inclusive Catholic LGBTQ ministry. Yunuen has been a regular speaker at the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, as well as at other regional religious formation congresses. As a community organizer, she has worked with L.A. Voice PICO, a faith-based, multi-faith, multiracial organization that works to create a society reflecting the dignity of all persons by addressing issues such as immigrant rights, education, and criminal justice reform.

 Yunuen is also the founder of @lgbtcatholics on Instagram, an online platform that provides resources for inclusive Catholic LGBTQ+ ministry. She previously served as the Religious Formation Coordinator (Sp) for the Catholic Ministry with Lesbian and Gay Persons of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Yunuen is the author of LGBT Catholics: A Guide for Inclusive Ministry and its Spanish counterpart, Católicos LGBTQ: Una Guía para Pastoral Inclusiva—both published by Paulist Press. 

The Spanish edition is an award-winning book, recognized in 2025 by the Association of Catholic Publishers.

Yunuen is also a board member of two prophetic organizations: New Ways Ministry and Future Church. 

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Yunuen Trujillo, Esq.- Immigration and Workers’ Rights Attorney

Yunuen Trujillo, Esq., is an immigration attorney and workers’ rights attorney. She advocates for immigrant workers, who are among the most vulnerable targets of wage theft, discrimination, retaliation, and harassment—including immigration-based retaliation. She has also led efforts to train workers, small business owners, union advocates, and community-based organizations on applicable labor, immigration, and constitutional laws in the event of immigration enforcement in the workplace. Her priority is to help workers recover stolen wages and empower them to continue asserting their labor rights.

Before becoming an attorney, she worked and volunteered with L.A. Voice, a faith-based, multi-faith, and multiracial community organization that, at the time, was made up of 57 diverse churches, synagogues, and mosques. L.A. Voice is a member of the larger PICO California network and the national Faith in Action network. She was the 2018 Michael Maggio Immigrants’ Rights Summer Fellow, a fellowship awarded by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL), and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIP/NLG). She graduated summa cum laude from the University of La Verne College of Law.

She was sworn in by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, the first Latina to hold that position.