Rochelle Gutiérrez

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Professor, Mathematics Education

Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez (she/ella) works at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a Chicana (Rarámuri) who grew up in an activist family, she is deeply committed to the well-being and healing of Indigenous, Black, and Latine/x communities. Prior to academia, she taught high school mathematics to migrant students and students in Title I schools. She focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics/science, Indigenous futurity and spirituality, political knowledge needed for teaching mathematics, living mathematx, and ethnomathematics. For the past three decades, she has sought to understand and support mathematics/science educators to navigate the politics of their institutions to better address justice and to cultivate new forms of mathematical practice for a changing world (e.g., climate crisis). She is an American Educational Research Association Fellow, previous Fulbright Scholar, and has served as a member of the national writing team for the Standards for Mathematics Teacher Preparation, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). Her research has been published in such journals as the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Harvard Educational Review, and Democracy and Education. Her work on Rehumanizing Mathematics, political conocimiento, and creative insubordination has been used in K-12 settings and university/college mathematics and science departments in the US and beyond. She created and runs the Workshop on Rehumanizing Mathematics at Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI). Ultimately, she seeks to continue the work of her ancestors and open up new possible relationships between humans, mathematics/science, and lands/waters.