Alejandra Martinez
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Alejandra Martinez is a Fort Worth-based environmental reporter. She’s covered the impacts of petrochemical facilities on Black and brown communities, including investigating a chemical fire at an industrial complex and how Texas's air monitoring system has failed Latino communities. Her work on climate change includes exploring the health effects of extreme heat and how extended droughts affect water resources.
Before joining The Texas Tribune in 2022, Martinez was an accountability reporter at KERA, where she began as a Report for America Corps Member and then covered Dallas City Hall. She has also worked as an associate producer at WLRN in South Florida. Martinez studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
