Prior to joining Mission Local, Adriana Gutierrez spent three years at The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California as an education and child welfare reporter through the Report For America reporting program. During her time there, she covered 40 school districts across Sonoma County, paying close attention to the fiscal crisis of the county’s largest school district, Santa Rosa City Schools. She won awards from the California News Publisher Association and California Journalism Awards for her coverage of violence on school campuses and student homelessness in Sonoma County.
Gutierrez graduated from Oregon State University in 2023, where she served as the dditor-in-chief of the university’s newspaper, The Daily Barometer. She also interned at The Oregonian in 2022. During her internship, she covered the business section of the metro paper, while also serving on the breaking news, education and weather desks.
Beat: Neighborhood reporter - covering one of San Francisco's neighborhoods.
The neighborhood reporter will be covering SoMa and Mission Bay - both of which are in District 6. The South of Market neighborhood was once the heart of the tech boom, but it is struggling post pandemic with a high vacancy rate and less street life. Mission Bay has become a bulwark for UCSF and has grown tremendously over the last decade thanks to biotech. So two different but contiguous neighborhoods that will continue to define SF's future.