The district includes portions of Bushwick, Greenpoint, and Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens.

[1] A Queens-born daughter of immigrants from Colombia, Gutiérrez is the first Colombian-American member of the New York City Council.

In 2013, she became a field organizer for the New York City Council Office of Diana Reyna.

Gutiérrez served as the chief of staff to City Council Member Antonio Reynoso from 2014 until 2021, and led eight cycles of Participatory Budgeting, which resulted in over $5 million in investments in public spaces such as schools, streets, parks, and NYCHA.

[7] Gutiérrez played a leading role in passing the Right to Know Act, which brought transparency to police stops, as well as the Waste Equity Bill, which reduced the amount of trash trucks and the associated pollution in North Brooklyn.