Nicolas Gutierrez III is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Southern California. He is currently a USC Provost’s Fellow, and W.E.B. DuBois & Ida B. Wells-Barnett Graduate Scholar.

Nicolas researches the criminalization of homelessness, frontline policy implementation, and mutual aid. His work has been published in the International Journal on Homelessness, Public Integrity, and Scholars Strategy Network. His research has also been featured in the Voice of San Diego, CBS 8, NBC 7, inewsource, and Televisa Californias.

He earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice and Criminology from San Diego State University and a B.A. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). In his hometown of Los Angeles, he is also a community organizer with West Adams Mutual Aid and serves on the West Adams Neighborhood Council’s Homelessness and Public Safety committees.