• Was the U.S. vice-presidential nominee of the Marxist-Leninist Workers Word Party
• Co-director of International ANSWER
• Characterizes America as a greedy, racist, imperialistic, and war-mongering nation

Born in January 1951, Teresa Gutierrez is a Communist political organizer, an immigrant-rights activist, a Chican movement foot soldier, and a member of the Secretariat of the Workers Word Party (WWP). She also serves as co-director of International ANSWER, chair of the U.S. Out-of-Columbia Committee, and deputy secretary-general of the International Migrant Alliance. A vocal member of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, Gutierrez has made numerous trips to Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela to publicly denounce American "imperialism." She was the 2004 U.S. vice-presidential nominee on the WWP ticket. Her WWP comrade John Parker was her presidential running mate.

Gutierrez characterizes the United States as a greedy, racist, imperialistic, war-mongering nation that neglects the needs of its poor. During an August 13, 2001 press conference in Washington, DC, Gutierrez said:

"[President] Bush is carrying out globalization inside the United States to maximize profit for oil companies, mining companies and defense contractors.... Bush is attempting to destroy environmental protections and trade union rights, privatize Social Security, and destroy public education while spending tens of billions to militarize outer space in the name of the so-called National Missile Defense.”

In 2006 Gutierrez worked to prevent the passage of the so-called “Sensenbrenner legislation,” a bill that would have: (a) mandated that the driver's licenses issued to illegal aliens were clearly distinguishable from those of citizens and legal residents and thus could not be used as federal identification documents; and (b) lowered the standards for deporting anyone deemed to be a potential national-security threat. While Gutierrez was glad that the Sensenbrenner bill was not signed into law, she complained that the Bush administration nonetheless had proceeded to impose "further repression through raids, deportation, [and] the empowerment of local law-enforcements to hunt down immigrants, [engage in] racial profiling and so forth."

In 2009 Gutierrez was a coordinator of the the New York May 1st Coalition, a committee of more than 40 immigrant- and worker-rights organizations in the New York area. This coalition held a rally at Union Square to celebrate International Workers’ Day (May Day) and to urge President Barack Obama to sign "comprehensive immigration reform" that would result in "an end to raids and deportations, and the legalization of the more than 12 million estimated undocumented immigrants in the United States."