Summary
Rose Ann Rico Eborda Gutierrez’s research is informed by a Pinay epistemology and positionality as a 1.5-generation immigrant, first-generation college student, and the only daughter of working-class Filipino immigrants. Her critical analytical lens as a race scholar in education undergirds her resolve to improve the conditions and opportunities of historically oppressed communities across the lifespan through educational research and practice. Her broader research agenda examines the relationship between knowledge, race, and social transformation in higher education contexts. She seeks to understand how racial inequities in education are preserved at the intersection of and in relationship with other systems of oppression, how students navigate these systems using embodied epistemologies, and what the role higher education institutions play in shaping student pathways and outcomes across P-20. Her interdisciplinary research about racial equity in education and intersectional justice is anchored by critical theories and critical qualitative methodologies. She has published in Educational Researcher, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, and Community College Review.
Gutierrez was a former middle school teacher in Miami, Florida, and was recognized by her school as Rookie Teacher of the Year in her second year of teaching. She has also worked in higher education as a student affairs practitioner in Seattle, Washington. She has consistently been engaged within her local community with her involvement in Filipino American National Historical Society-Hampton Roads as former chapter secretary in Virginia Beach, Virginia; Pilipino American Unity for Progress, Inc. as summit co-director and facilitator of community intergenerational dialogues in Seattle, Washington; and Southern California AANHPI Educators as a summit co-organizer in Los Angeles, California.
Education
- Ph.D., Social Sciences and Comparative Education Specializing in Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A., Student Development Administration, Seattle University
- B.A., Sociology, University of Richmond