Tia Elena Martinez has over 25 years’ experience working for social justice in working class communities of color in the United States.
Over the decades her work spanned a wide range of issues including mass incarceration, the school to prison pipeline, K-12 education, the HIV epidemic, the war on drugs, homelessness, affordable housing, disconnected youth, and immigration.
She is currently the Managing Director of Organizing Roots, an organization that seeks to advance racial, gender, economic, and health justice by providing grassroots organizing groups with a potent combination of capacity building and coaching on conscious organizing and movement building, strategy development, and data.
