Norma Martinez
News AnchorNorma Martinez is a native of El Paso and a veteran of public broadcasting. She began volunteering at the El Paso public radio station KTEP as a college student in 1989. She spent a year as a Morning Edition host and reporter at KRWG-FM in Las Cruces, New Mexico, before returning to KTEP as a full-time employee in 1995. At KTEP, Norma served as Morning Edition host, chief announcer, Traffic Director, PSA Director, and host and producer of various local shows.
Norma also voiced numerous commercials and worked part-time as a DJ at country, adult contemporary, and classic rock stations in El Paso.
Norma is a 1993 graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, earning a BA in Music Performance. She spent 23 years as a cellist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, and currently plays with the all-volunteer South Texas Symphonic Orchestra in San Antonio.
-
Tamales aren't just a treat that we enjoy on the holidays. Its origins date back thousands of years, and a new institution is exploring the cultural significance behind the staple corn husk dish. -
-
One of the pioneers for Latino representation in journalism is a woman whose career spans over four decades and transcends cultures, languages and borders.
-
For more than 60 years, Adela Sloss-Vento used her writings to challenge racial discrimination and exploitation of laborers, all the while championing the civil rights of Mexican Americans.
-
-
The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders created a Latino Economic Agenda with 10 policy recommendations to strengthen economic mobility for Latino communities suffering in the pandemic.
-
-
Latinx voters have often been dubbed the "sleeping giant" that can make or break competitive races. But is this the right metaphor to describe this growing group of voters? The Texas Organizing Project Education Fund and Culture Concepts spent the past year interviewing Latinx voters and nonvoters to better understand their civic engagement habits.
-
With early voting beginning Oct. 13 in Texas, Jolt Initiative — the state's largest Latino civic engagement organization — is mobilizing to challenge the low Latino voter turnout status quo.
-
The Mexican American civil rights movement often paralleled alongside the African American civil rights movement. Both fought against voter suppression, and discrimination in the classroom and in the workplace, but the historical fights for the Latinx community are often overlooked.
