Sunset Village: Canyon Point, Courtside, Delta Terrace

Resident Director (Courtside Canyon Point 1-4)

Sunset Village

Resident Director (Delta Canyon Point 5-8)

Sunset Village

Assistant Resident Director (Courtside Canyon Point 1-4)

Sunset Village

Assistant Resident Director (Delta Canyon Point 5-8)

Sunset Village

o.gutierrez@g.ucla.edu

Faculty-In-Residence

Sunset Village East

Osvaldo Gutierrez was born in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico, and raised in Sacramento, California. As recounted in the Criado en el Rancho, Hecho en UCLA article, despite the significant challenges posed by his undocumented status for over two decades, he attended Sacramento City College for six years before transferring to UCLA in 2006, originally intending to pursue a career in medicine. While working as an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory at UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, he discovered a passion for organic chemistry and changed his career path. After holding faculty positions at the University of Maryland and Texas A&M University, he returned to his alma mater as a Professor of Chemistry and the inaugural STEM Faculty Director at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC). He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early-career scientists and engineers. Outside the lab, Osvaldo enjoys listening to ’90s rap, watching UCLA basketball and football with his family, and enthusiastically take any opportunity to argue why the late-1990s/early-2000s Sacramento Kings were the greatest NBA team ever assembled.

JoseLoya@luskin.ucla.edu

Faculty-In-Residence

Sunset Village West

José Loya is an Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and faculty affiliate with the Chicano Studies Research Center. His research addresses Latino issues in urban areas by connecting ethno-racial inequality and contextual forces at the neighborhood, metropolitan, and national levels. On his free time, he enjoys hiking and playing basketball.