Angie Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She has also served as a Senior Research Analyst for BSP Research, where she conducted quantitative and qualitative research on Latino political opinion for the Harris 2024 campaign. She also worked on Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, conducting research on Latino voter outreach.

Her book project focuses on group consciousness in the Latino electorate, reconceptualizes the way that group consciousness is measured in survey research, and examines when group consciousness influences political behavior. Focusing on group identity and political behavior, she has published multiple articles on Latino politics and identity that can be found in Political Research Quarterly, Politics Gender and Identities, The Journal of Race Ethnicity Politics, and Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics.

In addition to her peer-reviewed papers, she has also authored many reports for the UCLA Voting Rights Project and UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative on Latino voting and turnout. 

She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021, an M.A. in Political Science from California State University, Northridge in 2014, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from The University of Southern California in 2011.