Jimmy Gutierrez
News ReporterJimmy Gutierrez become a WUWM news reporter in December 2024. Previously, he supported WUWM as a Lake Effect producer during 2024's election cycle.
Before joining WUWM, Jimmy was a senior editor for TED’s Audio Collective and managing editor for LWC Studios. He’s also a service journalist who directed the relaunch of the Detroit Documenters program for Outlier Media. His community-based work in Milwaukee was recognized with a John S. Knight Impact Fellowship from Stanford University.
Jimmy grew up on the south side and was raised in MPS schools. He’s a graduate of MATC and UW-Milwaukee, and first interned at WUWM in the summer of 2012. He was also a Milwaukee Firefighter.
Outside of work, you can find him lounging on his porch, listening to a podcast with his cat, Michelle Yeoh, or playing ball at Washington Park.
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This month’s "Group Chat" is a conversation between high school best friends who are off to college. The only problem is they’re afraid of what might happen to their parents, who don’t have legal status in the U.S. -
What can you do when you spot ICE in your neighborhood? One local organization is training community members how to spot, verify and document ICE activity and presence in Milwaukee. -
Summer means warmer days, longer nights and summer vacation. For young people in Milwaukee it also means a new season of Milwaukee Recreation programming. -
As hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community rise across the nation, local groups in Milwaukee are doing something about it. They're teaching self-defense skills. -
Father and son duo Tyrone and Corey Daniels have rarely, if ever, missed a Juneteenth festival in Milwaukee. And this year, they'll celebrate together again. -
The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is visiting Milwaukee to collect oral histories of the states boarding school survivors. -
As climate change worsens around the world, so does the most frequent and costly natural disaster in Wisconsin: flooding. Hear what authors of a new study say about the challenges Milwaukee is facing — and how the city is preparing. -
This month’s "Group Chat" eavesdrops on three Black leaders who want to imagine a local PrideFest that is truly inclusive of Milwaukee's Black queer community. -
In Milwaukee, there hasn’t been a more public fight against deportation efforts than that of Yessenia Ruano. The mother of two, and MPS teacher’s aide, faces deportation to El Salvador. -
Birthright citizenship has been ingrained in the constitution for over 150 years. But an executive order seeks to end it.
