Angélica S. Gutiérrez

Raised in Lincoln Heights by a single mother in a Spanish-speaking household, the odds were against Angélica becoming a successful student. Beginning her academic journey as an English Learner, school officials soon informed her mother that Angélica had a learning disability. Confident that the perceived “disability” was simply the language barrier, Angélica’s mother exchanged cooking and housework for tutoring services and, by the fourth grade, Angélica was fluent in English, going on to be very successful throughout her academic career.

Angélica completed her Master’s in Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her PhD at the UCLA Anderson School of Business Management. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity, Dr. Gutierrez returned to her serve her community at Loyola Marymount University—one of TELACU’s longstanding educational partners. One of the select few Latinas teaching at a US business school, she is continuing her research and teaching pursuits—only now as a tenured professor!

“Thank you for taking a chance on me and for believing in me even when I didn’t believe in myself. You’ve been my academic padrinos for all of these years, and for all of you, I am extremely grateful! Without your support, there’s no way that someone like me would have earned a PhD, let alone tenure, at a prestigious business school. Thanks to you, someone like me gets to educate the next generation of business leaders.”

Dr. Gutiérrez is passionate about inspiring and supporting ethnic minorities to pursue undergraduate and graduate business degrees, and to diversify Corporate America at the highest levels. And , despite her rigorous work load, she devotes much personal time to empowering students through organizations such as the UCLA Riordan Programs’ Saturday Business Academy and the TELACU Education Foundation.

An alumna of the TELACU Education Foundation’s College Success Program, and a four-time recipient of The David C. Lizárraga Fellowship, Sponsored by Toyota, Angélica has also received numerous awards including the Gerald R. Ford School Graduate Fellowship and the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program. Professionally, Dr. Gutiérrez was named one of the “World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” by Poets & Quants, and was recently selected as one of the first “Next Generation Latinas” by Latina Magazine and recognized as one of the first “Latinas of Influence” by Hispanic Lifestyle for her accomplishments and community service.