Angélica M. Gutiérrez-Ramos is a student in the MPH/LL.M. National and Global Health Law dual degree program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Georgetown University Law Center. She is originally from Colombia.
Gutiérrez is interested in mental health and substance use disorders law and policy, social determinants of mental health, and how law can be used to address those determinants in order to prevent mental disorders and promote mental health.
Before enrolling at Georgetown Law and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she immigrated to the U.S. from her home country, Colombia, and joined the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, an organization that provides legal assistance to immigrants in removal proceedings who do not have the means to pay for an attorney.
Before immigrating to the U.S., she worked as a temporary professor at her alma mater, Universidad del Rosario. In some of her classes, she taught her students about the interplay between mental health, psychosocial disability, and human rights law. She also organized discussion panels on these topics. During her time as a professor, inspired by her master’s dissertation, she wrote and published an article analyzing the issue of substance addiction within Colombia’s indigenous people from the perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Gutiérrez holds a law degree from Universidad del Rosario in Colombia and an MSc in mental health, ethics, and law from King’s College London.