Michelle Gutierrez
Michelle Gutierrez has joined ARLIS as a faculty research specialist in the Acquisition and Industrial Security (A&IS) mission area. Before starting ARLIS full-time, she was a graduate research assistant in the A&IS mission and a RISC intern in 2022 and 2023, working on projects focusing on critical technology protection and geospatial machine learning. Prior to joining ARLIS, she worked as an intern for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism on projects related to perpetrator identification and domestic radicalization.
Gutierrez graduated in February 2024 with a MS in Geospatial Intelligence from the University of Maryland. During her graduate studies, she and her team participated in NGA’s Tearline Initiative and worked on a geospatial intelligence project. Her expertise centers on counterterrorism, terrorism analysis, geospatial intelligence, imagery analysis, and open-source research.