Dr. Trujillo has over 15 years of experience in community health addressing health disparities in medically underserved areas and many years of building strong community partnerships with community leaders, non-profits, schools, places of worship, local government, and philanthropic groups supporting health access. She has expertise in healthcare delivery, finance, strategy, board governance, fund development, systems change, advocacy, marketing, health equity, and population health.

Dr. Trujillo is a first-generation American. Her mother is Mexican, and her father is Colombian. She has experience serving refugees and asylees from a multiplicity of countries, with most of her clinic’s patients coming from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela with others coming from Haiti, Ukraine, and Syria.

Dr. Trujillo is the CEO of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with an annual operating budget of $32M. The FQHC provides low-cost quality primary care and preventive care including health, mental/substance abuse services, social services, housing, and educational services to the residents in Greater West and Northwest Houston. In 2022, the FQHC served 25,436 individual patients and generated 84,578 total visit encounters. The program currently operates eight clinic locations, two mobile health clinics, and one administrative building.

Dr. Trujillo understands the healthcare and social service needs of vulnerable populations, having experienced similar challenges as a child. She experienced medical tourism at an early age driving to the Mexican border city of Matamoros for medical and dental care. Dr. Trujillo mentors first-generation students interested in obtaining a higher education. She is a founding member of the Spring Branch Leadership Institute with a mission of building the next generation of healthcare leaders representing communities of color.