Deborah Martinez-Martinez (born 1954) is CEO of the publisher Vanishing Horizons and is an author who explores the history of the Southwestern United States.
[2] As a child she played with paper dolls that taught her about cultures of different peoples, which inspired her later book Chicana Activists of Colorado.
Martinez-Martinez worked with Ray Aguilera as he created the Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation (PHEF).
[1] She has been involved with the Pueblo History Museum, serving as a historical interpreter and a founding member of the Fray Angelico Chávez Chapter of the Genealogy Society of Hispanic America.
[1] Martinez has been part of the group's advocacy towards removing the Christopher Columbus statue in the city of Pueblo.
She edited and published El Movimiento de Pueblo: An Anthology of Chicana and Chicano Acitivism in 2016 to illuminate the efforts of organizers in southern Colorado.