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 Symphony Viva.
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The Mexican American Studies course is offered to students at Jefferson High School in San Antonio. Fronteras visited the class in January to speak with the educators who helped bring the course to life, and to students on what the class has taught them so far. -
Over 2,700 works by over 600 regional and international artists are displayed throughout the university as part of the UTSA Art Collection. The endowment honors over 20 years of work from the collection's curator, Arturo Infante Almeida.
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Jack Herrera, the host of Texas Monthly's new "White Hats" podcast, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, a co-founder of the history project Refusing to Forget, discuss their efforts to highlight the history of violence and oppression committed by the Rangers against Mexicans and Texas Mexicans.
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Playwrights David Lozano and Raul Treviño discuss how the production dives into Crystal City Mexican American students who staged walkouts in protest of discrimination. The play makes its San Antonio debut at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Jan. 19-22.
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The Migration Policy Institute and the United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) released a brief in December 2022 with recommendations aimed to strengthen protections of unaccompanied migrant children and facilitate their reintegration with their families in the U.S.
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The Health Confianza program aims to repair the lack of trust many people — especially underrepresented populations — have with the U.S. healthcare system. A cohort of 10 organizations pledged to adopt health literacy policies and practices that will lead to better outcomes for San Antonio residents.
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Luis Rendon — a journalist living in New York — returned home to Laredo in December 2021 on a mission to reconnect with his roots. He wanted to experience Latino Christmas traditions like posadas and midnight mass on Christmas Eve, and wrote about his trip in a recent article for the Texas Highways Magazine.
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The alphabet book — written by Mando Rayo and Suzanne García-Mateus, with illustrations by Martha Samaniego Calderón — celebrates the people, places, and things that make up Latino culture.
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The play — going on its 27th year in San Antonio — was written, produced and directed by Alicia Mena. She spoke about what inspired her to write the play and the impact it has had on audiences.
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Medical anthropologist Elizabeth Farfán-Santos spent five years with Claudia García, a mother from Mexico who illegally crossed the border into the U.S. to provide a better life for her deaf daughter. She details García's story and struggles in her book, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma, and border crossing."
