Andrea Gutierrez

Andrea Gutierrez (she/her) is a producer on NPR podcast It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders. She's drawn to stories at the intersections of gender, race, class and ability in arts and culture.

Gutierrez has produced and reported episodes about the Chicano Moratorium of 1970, pop music's Latin Explosion of 1999, Latino voter outreach and the furor over Critical Race Theory as part of a longer history of culture wars in schools, as well as interviews with folks like Tiffany Haddish, Michaela Coel, Eric André, Desus Nice and The Kid Mero.

At NPR, she's worked as a producer on Planet Money and her work as appeared on Code Switch, Alt.Latino and All Things Considered.

Gutierrez is a longtime storyteller with work in print, digital and audio. She got her start in radio producing interviews and features for The Frame, a daily arts and entertainment show on member station KPCC. There she reported award-winning features on the costume designer from Jojo Rabbit and a nonbinary performance artist's tribute to queer ranchera singer Chavela Vargas.

Past bylines include BBC World Service, CBC, LAist, The California Sunday Magazine, Marfa Public Radio, Bitch, make/shift, Huizache and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Gutierrez has received honors and awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, National Association of Hispanic Journalists and NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. She was an IWMF Gwen Ifill Fellow, AIR New Voices Scholar and was a finalist in Member station KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race. Prior to working in radio, she spent several years as a university administrator. She taught, counseled and mentored students at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Riverside and Cal State LA.

A first-generation college graduate and lifelong Southern Californian, Gutierrez received her bachelor's degree in German studies at Scripps College and her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of California, Riverside. She's an alum of the Transom Traveling Workshop and the VONA Voices Workshop for writers of color.