[10][11] Martin left NPR in 1992,[7] and subsequently co-founded Latino USA, an English-language radio program based out of the University of Texas with support from the Ford Foundation.

[3][9] Martin trained journalists in the Central American countries of Bolivia, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, as well as in Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Uruguay, and the United States.

[4][9] In San Antonio, Texas, she taught a class at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center on community radio production.

[3] In 2020, she published a memoir entitled Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: A Journalist's Heart in Latin America.

[5][9] At the time of her death, Martin was a journalist fellow for the University of South Carolina's Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

[4][2] Her personal papers were donated to the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.