Alejandra Martinez
Alejandra Martinez is a reporter for KERA and The Texas Newsroom through Report for America (RFA). She's covering the impact of COVID-19 and its associated economic fallout on marginalized communities.
Before joining KERA, Ale was a producer at WLRN, South Florida’s NPR station where she covered immigration, marginalized communities, and the local arts scene. She would book, write, and produce stories for and the station’s daily talk show, “Sundial,” and she was part of Public Radio International’s (PRI) “Every 30 Seconds” election project, a collaborative public media reporting project tracing the young Latino electorate leading up to the 2020 presidential election and beyond.
Alejandra is no stranger to Texas. A native Texan, she began her broadcast career working with KUT, Austin’s NPR station, first as an intern and later a producer. Ale participated in NPR’s Next-Generation Radio project, a week-long journalism boot camp, where she covered Houston’s recovery post-Hurricane Harvey in 2018.
She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism in 2017.
If you’d like to connect with Ale or simply see what she’s reading about, listening to or covering follow her on Twitter — @_ martinez_ale.
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Lead contamination blamed on a mountain of shingles at a Southeast Dallas site is actually linked to an industrial plant that operated there in the 1970s and '80s. City leaders are worried that the surrounding neighborhood may also be contaminated. -
The all-volunteer group Clean the Block aims to educate communities on waste management. -
Beauty standards for women of Asian descent have long been tied to racism and sexualization. Stephanie Drenka was adopted from Korea and has experienced this first hand. Now, it's her mission to create safe spaces for women to share their experiences. -
A report by the Center for Social Innovation’s Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities shows about 67% of individuals experiencing homelessness in Dallas are Black, while this demographic makes up 19% of the population. -
The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing on Tuesday regarding the deadly 2018 natural gas explosion in Dallas. -
Music aficionados all over the world are mourning the death of the composer and singer famous for his love ballads, who died on Monday at the age of 85 to COVID-19 complications. -
After a years-long fight to remove Shingle Mountain, trucks on Thursday morning began to haul away the 70,000-ton pile of shingles in southeast Dallas.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the state Department of Public Safety to help the city tackle the surge in homicides, but community leaders say "over-policing" is not the way. -
Dallas city officials are encouraging residents to exercise caution, take the virus seriously, and rethink how they celebrate Thanksgiving this year. -
The Dallas City Council has approved $500,000 to study how widely spread the coronavirus is in North Texas and why some communities are harder-hit than others.
