As a graduate student at UC Davis, Eduardo Gutierrez‐Rodriguez was selected to participate as a Trellis Fund fellow, working remotely with an organization based in Tajikistan in 2011-2012, to support a project focused on postharvest handling of fruits.

When he was a faculty member at North Carolina State University, Gutierrez‐Rodriguez served as a mentor to Trellis Fund student fellows at NC State.