Biography
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Leo Trujillo-Cox
Executive Director of Academic Outreach & Development;
Associate Director of Admissions & Recruitment;
Instructor, Law Fellows Program
B.A. Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, 1991
B.A. Political Science, UC Berkeley, 1991
J.D. UCLA, 1997
trujillo@law.ucla.edu
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Leo Trujillo-Cox is committed to community outreach, education, and organizing, and to ensuring academic equity, access to education, and excellence in legal education both in California and nationally. He and his staff aggressively conduct a wide variety of other innovative initiatives designed to increase and maintain diversity in the legal community.
Mr. Trujillo-Cox heads the Academic Outreach Resource Center and is the Executive Director of Academic Outreach & Development for UCLA Law. He is also Associate Director of Admissions and Recruitment and an Instructor for the Law Fellows Program, UCLA Law's cornerstone outreach initiative. The program, now entering its fifteenth year, is a pioneering academic development initiative designed to ensure equity, access, excellence, and diversity in legal education. The objective of the program is to encourage and prepare high-potential undergraduates and recent graduates to pursue higher education and careers in law.
He received his BA degree in political science and ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, and a JD degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law in 1997. As a law student at UCLA, Mr. Trujillo-Cox was the Student Bar Association president and the recipient of the César Chávez and Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowships for his Environmental Justice work with California Rural Legal Assistance and the National Resources Defense Council. In 2001, he was named “Alumnus of the Year” by the La Raza Law Students Association. He is a founding member of a Los Angeles public charter school, which serves K–8 students through an arts and music based curriculum, emphasizing academic excellence, diversity, and ecological and social responsibility, and has served as Vice President of the Board of Trustees for five years.
Mr. Trujillo-Cox has served Law School Admission Council in various capacities including as a panelist at numerous annual meetings, as a member of the Minority Affairs Subcommittee on New Initiatives, and as a Diversity Committee Pipeline Models Conference Planning Committee member.