Adriana Gutiérrez Colón

Adriana Gutiérrez Colón was born on June 5, 1989, in San Juan as the youngest of four siblings. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in History of the Americas at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She subsequently completed a Juris Doctor degree at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law while working as a waitress. She was part of the Human Rights Clinic at the same university and later studied at the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Chiapas in Mexico. The office of Senator María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón served as her first contact with legislative work. From 2017 to 2024, she served as a legislative advisor to Representative Denis Márquez Lebrón. During that time, she was tasked with drafting the Puerto Rican Independence Party's (PIP) proposal for a universal healthcare system in Puerto Rico, as well as numerous legislative measures concerning environmental issues, gender-based violence, and social and labor justice. Since 2021, Gutiérrez Colón has directed the PIP's Secretariat of Women and Gender Affairs. Following the 2024 elections, she entered the Legislature as an At-Large Representative.