Demetria Martinez | |
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Born | July 10, 1960 |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs ( BA) |
Demetria Martinez (born July 10, 1960) is an American activist, poet, and novelist. [1] [2]
She was born on July 10, 1960, where she was raised by her grandmother in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a graduate of Princeton University with BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. [1]
In 1988, Martinez was charged with conspiracy for allegedly transporting two Salvadoran women refugees into the United States; [3] she was working as a freelance reporter covering religion and the Sanctuary Movement at the time. [4] She was later acquitted of the charges. [3] [5] During the trial, prosecutors used Martinez's poem "Nativity, For Two Salvadoran Women" in an attempt to build a case against her, a decision Martinez has called a "major error." [6]
Martinez worked as a religion reporter for the Albuquerque Journal in August 1986. [7]
She has been an editor for the National Catholic Review in Tucson, Arizona, since 1990, [1] and teaches in the annual William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[ citation needed]
Martinez has been associated with the Sanctuary Movement and with Enlace Comunitario, an Albuquerque-based organization that serves immigrant families experiencing domestic violence. [8]
Demetria Martinez | |
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Born | July 10, 1960 |
Occupation |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs ( BA) |
Demetria Martinez (born July 10, 1960) is an American activist, poet, and novelist. [1] [2]
She was born on July 10, 1960, where she was raised by her grandmother in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a graduate of Princeton University with BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. [1]
In 1988, Martinez was charged with conspiracy for allegedly transporting two Salvadoran women refugees into the United States; [3] she was working as a freelance reporter covering religion and the Sanctuary Movement at the time. [4] She was later acquitted of the charges. [3] [5] During the trial, prosecutors used Martinez's poem "Nativity, For Two Salvadoran Women" in an attempt to build a case against her, a decision Martinez has called a "major error." [6]
Martinez worked as a religion reporter for the Albuquerque Journal in August 1986. [7]
She has been an editor for the National Catholic Review in Tucson, Arizona, since 1990, [1] and teaches in the annual William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[ citation needed]
Martinez has been associated with the Sanctuary Movement and with Enlace Comunitario, an Albuquerque-based organization that serves immigrant families experiencing domestic violence. [8]