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Alejandra Martinez

Alejandra Martinez is The Texas Tribune’s Fort Worth-based environmental reporter. She joined the Tribune in the fall of 2022. Alejandra was previously an accountability reporter at KERA, where she began as a Report for America corps member and then covered Dallas City Hall. Before that, she worked as an associate producer at WLRN, South Florida’s public radio station. Alejandra studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, and interned at KUT and NPR’s Latino USA. She’s a native of the Aldine area of Harris County and speaks fluent Spanish.

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Neglected and exposed

Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system and leaving residents in the dark. (Originally published by The Texas Tribune, Environmental Health News and palabra)

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