 The middle child of businessman Francis Gutierrez and Tina Lazcanotegui, the latter with Spanish ancestry, Gutierrez received her education from St. Pedro Poveda College and International School Manila (ISM), graduating in 2006.Gutierrez graduated "cum laude" from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2010.As a Yale Journalism scholar, Gutierrez worked with various publications, was a reporter for the undergraduate-run monthly television newsmagazine YTV News, and was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Human Rights.