Demetria Martinez (born July 10, 1960) is an American activist, poet, and novelist.
She is a graduate of Princeton University with BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
[1] In 1988, Martinez was charged with conspiracy for allegedly transporting two Salvadoran women refugees into the United States;[3] she was working as a freelance reporter covering religion and the Sanctuary Movement at the time.
[7] She has been an editor for the National Catholic Review in Tucson, Arizona, since 1990,[1] and teaches in the annual William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
[citation needed] Martinez has been associated with the Sanctuary Movement and with Enlace Comunitario, an Albuquerque-based organization that serves immigrant families experiencing domestic violence.