Andrea Gutierrez is a reporter and podcast producer in Los Angeles. She's drawn to stories about culture, identity, and power. A longtime storyteller with work in print, digital, and audio, she most recently produced and reported for NPR, where she was part of the teams who made TED Radio Hour, It’s Been a Minute, and Planet Money. Her reporting has aired on shows across the network, including All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Code Switch and Alt.Latino. In 2023, she reported from Berlin as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow.
Gutierrez got her start in radio producing and reporting for The Frame, a daily radio show on NPR station LAist. Past bylines include The World, Marfa Public Radio, Bitch, make/shift, and Huizache.
Her work has won awards and honors from the Podcast Academy, Los Angeles Press Club, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and KCRW’s 24-Hour Radio Race. She was a RIAS Berlin Commission Fellow, IWMF Gwen Ifill Fellow, and AIR New Voices Scholar. In a previous life, she spent many years advising and mentoring students at public universities throughout California.
A first-generation college graduate and lifelong Southern Californian, Gutierrez received a B.A. in German studies at Scripps College and an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of California, Riverside. She's an alum of the Poynter Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media and the Transom Traveling Workshop.
