Marisela Rodríguez-Gutiérrez

Marisela Rodríguez-Gutiérrez is an Academic Advisor for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Program in the College of Liberal Arts and the Department Advisor for the Chicano/Latino Studies Program. Marisela completed her Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Master of Science in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University. Prior to completing her master’s degree, Marisela was a Pre-College Advisor in a nonprofit agency in the southside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and worked in the legal field as a legal assistant for a worker’s compensation law firm. Marisela has experience advising first-generation, low-income, LGBTQIA+ communities and students with multiple marginalized identities. As a first-generation college student herself, Marisela became the first person in her family to graduate with a college degree.

Marisela was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In her free time, Marisela enjoys collecting records, binge-watching television shows and movies (while critiquing them!), spending time with her family and playing with her puppy.