The Trejo Foster Foundation for Hispanic Library Education (TFF) was officially established on September 4, 1992 in Tucson, Arizona.  The founders of the Foundation include Annette Marie Foster Trejo, María Luisa Trejo and Arnulfo D. Trejo.

Annette M. Foster Trejo, the late wife of Arnulfo and co-founder of Hispanic Books Distributors, Inc. (HBD) was born in Nevada in 1936 and lived in Tucson, Arizona from 1966 to 1992.  

María Luisa Trejo, sister of Arnulfo and the eldest of the Trejo family, was born in Durango, México in 1904. She had no formal education but taught herself to read and write. Over the years she became an avid reader as well as an advocate for libraries. For more than thirty years she administered her own restaurant.

Dr. Arnulfo D. Trejo, who was born in México and raised in Tucson, Arizona, was President of the Trejo Foster Foundation until his passing in 2002. He was also Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona where he once directed the Graduate Library Institute for Spanish-speaking Americans (GLISA). Dr. Trejo also founded Hispanic Books Distributors (HBD) and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking.

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