Ximena Gutierrez, B.A.

Ximena (Mena) Gutierrez is a first-year graduate student in the Social-Experimental Psychology Program at Saint Louis University. She graduated from Lindenwood University in 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. Ximena has worked as a research assistant in labs focused on gender expression within heterosexual and lesbian couples, aging and neurodegenerative diseases, and trauma responses to perinatal loss. Outside of her academic pursuits, Ximena enjoys spending time outdoors, working out, hanging out with her friends and choppin' it up in the kitchen.