DAMIAN TRUJILLO

Since 1996, Damian Trujillo has been a NBC Bay Area News reporter, host and producer of “Comunidad Del Valle,” the longest running public affairs program in the Bay Area. Comunidad Del Valle now also airs in Spanish on Telemundo 48.

Damian is a recipient of the prestigious Emmy Award. 

Damian grew up in the farm community of Greenfield, California. While in high school, Damian worked in the agricultural fields of the Salinas Valley, with his family, to help make ends meet. He picked garlic, broccoli, cucumbers, and strawberries. He was also an irrigator.

As a former farm worker, Damian now honors his first job, on the Cesar Chavez Holiday. Every March 31, Damian’s family hosts family, friends, and students. They make sack lunches at the Trujillo home, and distribute them to roughly 250 farm workers in the South Bay. The gesture is a “thank you “ to farm workers, for their tireless work.  In addition, each year, the Trujillo family awards a college scholarship to the son or daughter of a farm worker in Greenfield.

 In 2012, Carolyn Brown, professor at American University in Washington D.C., produced a half-hour documentary on the life of Damian Trujillo titled “From the Fields: An American Journey”. Damian screened the film at Stanford, Georgetown, and Harvard Universities, and at The National Steinbeck Center. In April 2013, the South Bay U.S. Congressional Delegation invited Damian for a special screening on Capitol Hill.

Damian and his wife Monica have a daughter, Malyna, a student at George Washington University, and twins Isela and Michael Damian.