Her research focuses on equity in mathematics education, race/class/language issues in teaching and learning mathematics, effective teacher communities, and the achievement gap. Gutiérrez’s current research projects include teacher community and secondary mathematics teaching in Mexico (for which she received a Fulbright), developing preservice teachers’ knowledge and disposition to teach mathematics to marginalized students, and using “Nepantla” as a way to theorize knowledge for teaching. She is the principal investigator on an National Science Foundation grant that seeks to understand what it takes to develop high school mathematics teachers who engage their students in rigorous mathematics and who are committed to social justice.