Meet the
STAFF

Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez is an ordained United Methodist minister and has served as Pastor in several Los Angeles churches. She was Director of Urban Ministry for the Cal-Pac conference of the UMC, and most recently served as Executive Director of the Museum of Social Justice in Los Angeles. Rev. Jennifer also has a Master of Divinity from Claremont School of Theology and is currently working on her Doctorate of Ministry, also from Claremont.

Her commitment to CLUE’s mission and vision is unquestioned and she brings a deep understanding of labor and economic justice as well as the immigration issues facing our communities.She has been involved with CLUE for several years as an active clergy member, part of the Los Angeles Committee, a board member and, most recently, our interim ED beginning in January 2022.  As a clergy member Rev. Jennifer also understands the connection between the labor and faith communities that has been CLUE’s focus and commitment since its inception.

As a system-impacted leader, Sithy Bin brings deep personal experience to his work advocating for immigrant justice and dignity. He is a passionate community organizer, public speaker, and is the organizer of CLUE’s Welcome Network, supporting newly arrived migrants.

and asylum seekers across Southern California. He is committed to building a beloved community rooted in faith, equity, and solidarity.

Kara comes to CLUE from the world of after-school youth programs, where she worked as an administrator for five years. She has been a part of the African Methodist Episcopal church all of her life and aspires to be a youth pastor. Until then, she’s excited to serve as CLUE’s HR and Admin Manager, while simultaneously serving as the director of the Young Peoples Department at Johnson Chapel Santa Ana AME Church.

Pastor Cue is a former Virgin Records hip-hop artist who became the pastor at Skid Row’s Church Without Walls years ago. He has been active with CLUE since 2009 and on staff with CLUE since 2014.

Julia is a nonprofit communications worker and artist. Her work is grounded in a familial legacy of union organizing and leftist liberation movements. Julia seeks to create visuals and campaigns to amplify and broadcast the messages of grassroots organizers.

Rev. Dr. Rob Muthiah brings over 25 years of experience in education, ministry, and activism to CLUE. Rob worked as a professor of practical theology at Azusa Pacific Seminary for 16 years. where his teaching and research focused on leadership in faith-based communities, ethics, and personal formation. He also directed the school’s field education program, in which all seminary students participated. He holds a Ph.D. in practical theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and an M.Div. from Northern Seminary. He is ordained through the Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church USA and has been an active member of Pasadena Mennonite Church for over 20 years.Rob is passionate about justice issues and has extensive experience advocating for affordable housing, hunger-reduction legislation, and racial justice. In his free time, he enjoys native plant and vegetable gardening, running and mountain biking in the local mountains, and reading. Rob and his wife, Lisa, have three adult children.

Autumn is a database manager and former faith-rooted organizer with CLUE: Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice in Orange County. Following his passion to teach, he ended up having to survive as an adjunct professor, teaching part-time between seven different colleges, and throughout this experienced humiliating working conditions and years without health insurance. Fed up, in 2014 he quit and joined the labor movement to help hundreds of adjunct art faculty like himself organize their unions in Los Angeles. He later joined NUHW as an organizer, accompanying healthcare workers at Fountain Valley Hospital in Orange County as they demanded respect from management and quality care for their patients.

In 2017, after his neighbor, Romulo, was abducted by ICE while dropping his daughters off at school, Adam reconnected with his Jewish justice roots and began volunteering with CLUE in the fight against Trump’s unconscionable attacks against immigrants. His spiritual life was then further agitated after participating in CLUE’s summer-long Young Religious Leaders Fellowship. As a worker Adam has been a shop steward and bargaining team member, and in addition to teaching has been an artist, musician, art community organizer, and a massage therapist in grocery stores. As a Jew he feels called to stand with those fighting injustice and demanding dignity for all. Do you feel that call in your heart, too? Do you believe a new world is possible? Then please call me and let’s organize!

Guillermo Torres spearheads CLUE’s immigration and outreach campaigns. Guillermo was the lead CLUE organizer for the successful living wage campaign in Long Beach as well as the first-ever Flying Food workers unionization campaign at LAX. In that capacity, Guillermo Torres spearheads CLUE’s immigration and outreach campaigns. Guillermo was the lead CLUE organizer for the successful living wage campaign in Long Beach as well as the first-ever Flying Food workers unionization campaign at LAX. In that capacity, he also advocated for strong community benefits agreements in new building developments, particularly for securing local, diverse hiring, and worker rights. Prior to joining CLUE, Guillermo was a Teamster and an immigrant rights activist. His faith is a vital part of his work. Though he was raised a Pentecostal, he only reconnected with his faith in 2007, after a painful encounter. He sees this God’s love revealed in his work to heal injustices and suffering in our community.

Jacki’s passion for justice and human rights dates back to her college days at San Diego State University where she worked to pass California’s historic insurance reform initiative Proposition 103 and began organizing high school and college students as a member of Amnesty International. Jacki’s passion for justice and human rights dates back to her college days at San Diego State University where she worked to pass California’s historic insurance reform initiative Proposition 103 and began organizing high school and college students as a member of Amnesty International. She graduated SDSU with a Bachelors in Journalism. Since then, she has worked in media and nonprofits, including serving as Chief Development Officer for Homeboy Industries, Development Director at The Broad Stage, and Development Director for KCRW. Jacki is a lay leader in the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica, where she raised her three children. Her faith calls her to “side with love” and work for justice for all.

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Autumn is a faith-rooted organizer with CLUE: Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice in Orange County. Following his passion to teach, he ended up having to survive as an adjunct professor, teaching part-time between seven different colleges,

Rev. Sam Pullen (he/him), brings over 25 years of experience in union, nonprofit, interfaith and congregational settings to his role as a Faith Rooted Organizer with CLUE. Sam was trained as a union organizer, researcher, boycott and community organizer by UNITE HERE. He has served as an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ in Southern California since 2013, the Minister of Health Justice with LA Voice Faith In Action (PICO), a faith rooted organizer with CLUE, and as the pastor of LGBTQ+ affirming congregations in Los Alamitos and Woodland Hills. He is a recipient of CLUE’s 2020 Architect of Justice award for organizing to defend immigrants from anti-sanctuary policies in Los Alamitos. Sam holds a Master of Divinity from Claremont School of Theology and a B.A. in Environmental Justice from The Evergreen State College.