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CURRICULUM VITAE Isabel Martínez, Ph.D.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

524 West 59th St., 8.63.02, New York, New York 10032 212.237.8674·imartinez@jjay.cuny.edu

Education 2010 Ph.D., Sociology of Education Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY Dissertation: Making Transnational Adults from Youth:

Mexican Immigrant Youth in Pursuit of the Mexican Dream Award: Outstanding Dissertation, Honorable Mention, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

2002 M.A., Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado Award: Outstanding Master’s Graduate, School of Education Award: Outstanding Master’s Graduate for Equity and Excellence 1996 B.A., Sociology Rice University, Houston, TX Academic Positions 2017-Present Assistant Professor, with Tenure

Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York 2010-2017 Assistant Professor

Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York 2009-2010 Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 2006-2009 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York 2006 Teaching Assistant, Survey Research Methods

Department of Human Development, Dr. Aaron M. Pallas Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York 2005-2006 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Latina/o Studies Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Dr. Nicole M. Marwell Columbia University, New York, New York 2004-2005 Teaching Assistant, Sociology of Education

Martinez/2 Department of Human Development, Dr. Aaron M. Pallas

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York 2002 Instructor, Chicanas in United States Society

Department of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Honors and Awards 2018 Outstanding Educator, New York State Youth Leadership Council 2018 Distinguished Faculty Service to Students Award John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York 2018 Recognition, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Student Council John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York 2015 The Kwando Kinshasa Excellence in Mentoring Award

Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York

2013-2014 Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Princeton, NJ

2012-2013 Distinguished Teaching Prize John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York

2012-2013 Outstanding Dissertation, Honorable Mention American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

2009-2010 Consortium for Faculty Diversity Scholar Hamilton College Clinton, New York

2008-2009 Dissertation Fellowship Spencer Foundation

2008-2009 Race/Ethnicity Graduate Student Scholarship Society for the Study of Social Problems

2008-2009 Dissertation Fellowship American Educational Research Association (Declined)

Scholarly Publications

Martinez/3 2019 Martínez, I. Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican

Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/becoming-transnational-youth-workers/9780813589794

Articles in Refereed Journals

2016 Martínez, I. “Supporting Two Households: Mexican Immigrant Youth and their absences from U.S. Schools.” Journal of Latinos and Education, 15, 3, 229-243.

2016 Martínez, I. “Miseducating Latina Researchers: Challenges and Consequences in

the Field.” Latino Studies, 14, 4,533-544.

2009 Martínez, I. “What’s Age Gotta to Do With It? Exploring the Lives of Transnational Mexican Youth in New York City,” The High School Journal. 92: 34-48. Invited, Peer Reviewed.

Book Chapters 2019 Martínez, I. Becoming American, Staying Mexican: Negotiating Assimilation in an

Ambivalent Global City. In P. Sanchez, Hernández Zamora, G. and G. Ramirez (Eds.), In search of hope and home: Mexican immigrants in the trinational NAFTA context. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (Forthcoming).

2018 Martínez, I. Why They Leave: Latin American Immigrant Youths and Quests for

Survival. In M. Crock and L. Benson (Eds), Protecting the Migrant Child: Central Issues in the Search for Best Practice, Edward Elgar Publishing, Human Rights Handbook Series. Montelongo, I. and I. Martínez. Decolonizing the classroom: Latina/os and Chicana/os Speaking and Learning from the Margins. In G. Nuñez and A.Gonzalez, Community Engagement and High Impact Practices in Higher Education, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing.

2016 Martínez, I. Volverse Americano sin dejar lo mexicano en Nueva York. En

Hernández Z. G., Sanchez, P., Ramírez, G. (Coords.), 20 Años después: Jóvenes migrantes en Norte América. México: UAM-ITESO-UNAM.

Martínez, I. Crime and the US-Mexico Border. In J.L. Morín (Ed.), Latinos and

Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. 158-181.

Encyclopedia Entries 2016 Martinez, I. Mexicans. In J.L. Morín (Ed.), Latinos and Criminal Justice: An

Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 383-390. 2016 Martinez, I. Texas Rangers. In J.L. Morín (Ed.), Latinos and Criminal Justice: An

Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 443-447.

Martinez/4 2016 Martinez, I. Transnational Crime. In J.L. Morín (Ed.), Latinos and Criminal

Justice: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 447-464. 2016 Martinez, I. Vigilantism. In J.L. Morín (Ed.), Latinos and Criminal Justice: An

Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 475-481. 2015 Martinez, I. Undocumented Youth Labor. In S. Oboler and D. Gonzalez (Eds.),

Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Politics, Law and Social Movements, New York: Oxford Press.

2015 Martinez, I. Unaccompanied Minors. In S. Oboler and D. Gonzalez (Eds.), Encyclopedia

of Latinos and Latinas in Politics, Law and Social Movements, New York: Oxford Press. Book Reviews 2013 “Unequal Fortunes: Snapshots from the South Bronx,” Latino Studies. 11

(Spring) 119-121. 2012 “Con Respeto y Dignidad: Creating Culturally Relevant Contexts for

Latina/o Student Success,” Latino Studies. 10 (Autumn): 431-435. 2010 “Transformations of La Familia on the US-Mexico Border,” Contemporary

Sociology. Submitted, Revise and Resubmit Article Martinez,I. “From the Academy to the Field: Shifting researcher positions across borders.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. (Peer-reviewed) In progress Edited Manuscript Martinez, I., I. V. Montelongo, N. D. Natividad and Nieves, A.D. (Eds): Beyond Digital Fronteras:Rehumanizing Latinx Education, Anticipated Prospectus Submission: October 2019, Funding Received for Prospectus Development and Submission, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. Articles Martinez,I. “Child Lawbreakers? Criminalizing Central American refugee minors” Martínez, I. “When Latinx College Students become Legal Advocates: The case of the Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project” Martínez “Not only Ellis Island: Rendering early 20th century unaccompanied Latin American child migration visible” Book Chapters

Martinez/5 Martínez, I. “Hope in a time of Despair: Unauthorized Mexican College Students during the Trump Era Working Groups 2018-Present “Tendencias actuales de la migración México-Estados Unidos (con énfasis

en el circuito migratorio Puebla-New York” Invited contributor to edited manuscript. Includes scholars from Universidad Iberoamericana-Ciudad Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla, Benemérita Autónoma de Puebla and Fordham University.

2017-Present “Beyond Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education.” Principal Investigator and Co-Editor for edited manuscript. Includes scholars from New Mexico State University, San Diego State University and University of Texas at El Paso (All Hispanic Serving Institutions-HSIs) Grants and Contracts Total Amount of Grant Funds Awarded: $220,708 (2010 to Present) 2018-2019 Principal Investigator, Teaching Latinx Studies in the 21st Century

Interuniversity Latino Program for Latino Research Working Group Award, Cycle 2. ($5000) Faculty-led Project, Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-LAMP). CUNY Service Corps. This award provides funding for the employment of eight students to provide support services and collect data with unaccompanied minors who are awaiting release to sponsors and are currently in deportation proceedings. Partners: Catholic Charities of New York, Safe Passage Project. Awarded. Monetary Value: $ 27, 648

2017-2018 Principal Investigator, Teaching Latinx Studies in the 21st Century

Interuniversity Latino Program for Latino Research Working Group Award, Cycle 1. ($5000) Faculty-led Project, Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-LAMP). CUNY Service Corps. This award provides funding for the employment of nine students to provide support services and collect data with unaccompanied minors who are awaiting release to sponsors and are currently in deportation proceedings. Partners: Catholic Charities of New York, Safe Passage Project. Awarded. Monetary Value: $ 27, 648

2016-2017 Principal Investigator, Something Old and Something New: PSC-CUNY Traditional B Research Award #69670-0047. Awarded. ($6000)

2016-2017 Faculty-led Project, Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-

LAMP). CUNY Service Corps. This award provides funding for the employment of nine students to provide support services and collect data with unaccompanied minors who are

Martinez/6 awaiting release to sponsors and are currently in deportation proceedings. Partners: Catholic Charities of New York, Safe Passage Project. Awarded. Monetary Value: $ 27, 648

2015-2016 Faculty-led Project, Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-

LAMP). CUNY Service Corps. This award provides funding for the employment of five students who provide support services and collect data with unaccompanied minors who are currently in deportation proceedings. Partner: Safe Passage Project. Awarded. Monetary Value: $17, 280.

2014-2015 Faculty-led Project, Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-

LAMP). CUNY Service Corps. This award provides funding for the employment of five students who provide support services and collect data with unaccompanied minors who are currently in deportation proceedings. Partner: Safe Passage Project. Awarded. Monetary Value: $17, 280.

2013-2014 Principal Investigator, Intersections of Vulnerability and Criminality: The

detention of unaccompanied Mexican minors in the United States. PSC-CUNY Traditional B Research Award #66600-0044. ($6000).

August 2013-Present Anchoring Achievement in Mexican Communities Implementation Grant.

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation. Consultant and Planning Team Member. Partners: Internationals Network for Public Schools, Make the Road New York, City University of New York Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. ($100,000)

April-July 2013 Anchoring Achievement in Mexican Communities Planning Grant.

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation. Consultant and Planning Team Member. Partners: Internationals Network for Public Schools, Make the Road New York, City University of New York Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. ($10000).

March-July 2013 Faculty Advisor, Student Research Department Incentive Award. Office of Undergraduate Research. This award allowed me to hire two undergraduate students to assist on the PIERAN research project. ($500).

December 2012 Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund. Occupy Sandy. Grant writer, La Union. This award provided funds to undocumented Mexican families in need of basic household items after Hurricane Sandy. Funded. ($4000).

2011-2014 20 Years Later: Educational and labour expectations of immigrant youths and those who have returned to the NAFTA region: Canada, US and México, PIERAN (Programa Interinstitucional de Estudios sobre la Region de America del Norte). Co-Principal Investigator. $30000. Funded.

2011 Creating Pan-Latina/o Connections across the Humanities, National

Endowment of the Humanities, Co-Principal Investigator. $30000. Not awarded.

Martinez/7 2007-2009 President’s Office of Diversity and Community Grant, Teachers College,

Columbia University, ($4000) 2007 Fairfax Travel Grant, Teachers College, Columbia University, ($500) 2005-2006 Dean’s Grant for Student Research, Teachers’ College, Columbia University, ($2000)

Fellowships, Prizes and Awards 2018 Outstanding Educator New York State Youth Leadership Council New York, New York 2018 Distinguished Faculty Service to Students Award ($1000) John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York 2015 The Kwando Kinshasa Excellence in Mentoring Award. Ronald E. McNair

Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

2013-2014 Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship. ($30,000) Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ. 2012-2013 Distinguished Teaching Prize ($1000) John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 2012-2013 Outstanding Dissertation, Honorable Mention American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education 2012-2013 Faculty Fellowship Publication Program City University of New York 2012-2013 Faculty Fellows Program American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education 2010-Present Digital Humanities Fellow Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 2009-2010 Consortium for Faculty Diversity Scholar, Department of Sociology, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. 2008-2009 Dissertation Fellowship, Spencer Foundation, ($25,000) 2008-2009 Race/Ethnicity Graduate Student Scholarship, Society for the Study of

Social Problems, ($12,000) 2008-2009 Dissertation Fellowship, American Educational Research Association,

($12,000). Declined.

Martinez/8 2007-2008 Office of Policy and Research Fellowship, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, ($6,000) 2005-2006 Student Research in Diversity, Teachers College, Columbia University, ($3,000) Academic Conference Papers Presented July 2018 Supporting Immigrant Students and Families, Latinx Studies Now! DC

2018+, Washington, DC. National (Presenter and Panel Organizer). July 2018 Connecting Relevant Histories and Futures: Rehumanizing Latinx Studies,

Latinx Studies Now! DC 2018+, Washington, DC. National (Presenter and Panel Organizer).

April 2017 Child Lawbreakers? Criminalizing Central American refugee minors, Siglo

XXI: Mapping Latino Research, IUPLR, Sixth Biennial Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio. National. (Presenter).

April 2017 When Building Walls Is Not an Option: Building Bridges in Latinx

Classrooms, Siglo XXI: Mapping Latino Research, IUPLR, Sixth Biennial Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio. National. (Panel Organizer and Presenter).

March 2017 e-Public Spaces: Student Teams Constructing Collaborative eportfolios.

Rebundling Higher Education: High Impact eportfolio practices and the New Digital Ecosystem, Guttmann Community College, New York, New York. (Co-Presenter with Irma Montelongo).

July 2016 When Latina/o College Students become Legal Advocates: The case of the

Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project. Latino Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, California. National. (Panel Organizer/ Presenter/Moderator)

May 2016 The Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project, Northeast People of Color

Legal Scholarship Conference, Touro College of Law, New York, NY. Regional. (Invited Panelist)

April 2015 When Students become Advocates for New York City’s Youngest

Immigrants: The Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project. Siglo XXI: Intra-Latina/os: Entre Latina/os: Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions and Disciplines, IUPLR, Fifth Biennial Conference, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. National. (Panel organizer, Moderator).

April 2015 More than Numbers: The Practice of Being a Hispanic Serving Institution.

Siglo XXI: Intra-Latina/os: Entre Latina/os: Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions and Disciplines, IUPLR, Fifth Biennial Conference, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. National. (Panel co-organizer, Co-presenter)

Martinez/9 April 2015 Disrupting the Digital Divide. Siglo XXI: Intra-Latina/os: Entre Latina/os:

Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions and Disciplines, IUPLR, Fifth Biennial Conference, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. National. (Co-presenter).

July 2014 Becoming Undocumented Young Adults in Manhatitlan: Unaccompanied Mexican Minors Age into Adulthood. 2014 Imagining Latina/o Studies Conference, Chicago, IL. National. (Presenter). July 2014 When Chican@s and Quisqueyan@s Virtually Meet: Bridging Geographic and Ethnic Differences for a more holistic Latin@ Studies. 2014 Imagining Latina/o Studies Conference, Chicago, IL. National. (Co-Presenter). February 2014 From Campos to Kitchens: Unaccompanied Mexican Minors and Labor in New York City’s Informal Economy. Annual Meeting, Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD. National. (Presenter). March 2013 Chutes and Ladders: How Mexican Immigrant Youth Experience

Cultural and Social Reproduction. Annual Meeting, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA. Regional.(Presenter)

November 2012 Bridges across Borders: Using technology to foster deeper understandings of

diversity, 11th Annual CUNY Information Technology Conference, City University of New York, New York, NY. (Presenter)

February 2012 31st Annual Meeting on The First Year Experience, Utilizing First-Year Seminars

to Dismantle Racial and Ethnic Borders in American Colleges: The Creation of the UTEP-John Jay Global Learning Community

National Resource Center on the First Year Experience, San Antonio, TX. National. (Co-Presenter)

January 2012 From New Students to 21st Century Global Citizens: Developing Cross-

Campus Global Proficiencies. American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C. National. (Co-Presenter)

December 2011 10th Annual Information Technology Conference, From Textbooks to eBooks:

The Successes and Challenges of Transforming the Way We Educate. City University of New York, New York, NY. Regional. (Presenter) April 2011 Understanding Conditions Influencing Never-Enrolled Mexican

Immigrant Youth in New York City,” American Educational Research Association Conference. National. (Presenter).

2009 All Work and No Play: Examining the Lives of Unaccompanied Mexican

Youth in New York City", First Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Education, University of Georgia. Athens, GA

2009 School-Going Practices of Mexican Immigrant Youth in New York City”,

Children of Immigrants in Schools, Social Science Research Council, New York, NY. National. Presenter.

Martinez/10 2010 Americana? No soy Chicana! Intersections of gender, nationality, citizenship and violence in the field", International Qualitative Methods Conference, Guanajuato, Mexico (May). Paper accepted, conference cancelled due to H1N1 concerns. Rescheduled June 2011. 2007 Soy Adulto! I’m an adult! In the Big Manzana: The Plight of Non- School-Going Mexican Immigrant youth in New York City, Society for Study of Social Problems, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. (August)

2008 Performing Adulthood: Mexican Immigrant Youth in New York City,

Nuestra America in the US? A US Latino Studies Conference, University of Kansas (February)

2007 Adolescent or Adult? The Aged Experiences of Mexican Immigrant and Mexican Youth, Education Across the Americas Conference, Teacher’s College, Columbia University (March) 2007 Adolescent or Adult? The Aged Experiences of Mexican Immigrant and Mexican Youth, Comparative International Education Conference, Baltimore, Maryland (March) 2006 The Paradox of Mexican Teen Immigrants in the United States, National Association of Chicano/a Studies, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (July) 2006 The Paradox of Mexican Immigrant Teen Dropouts, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA (April) 2005 “Venimos con Hambre (We come Hungry): An examination of Mexican Immigrant parents’ interactions with US schools”, American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada (April) 2004 Venimos con Hambre (We come Hungry): An examination of Mexican Immigrant parents’ interactions with US schools, Education Across the Americas, Teachers College, Columbia University (March)

Invited Academic Talks and Presentations

November 2018 Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practices, Book Launch Panel Discussion. New York Law School, New York, New York. Invited Participant. October 2018 Implementation of Public and Institutional Policies for

Undocu/DACAmented Students at Higher Education Institutions. UnDocuScholars/ASHE/UConn School of Education Twitter Chat Research Brief Series. Invited Participant.

May 2018 Protecting the Rights of Immigrants in Our Communities: Law Schools

Working to Ensure Representation, Pace Law School, White Plains, New York. (Invited Presenter).

April 2018 Knowing Your Students, Knowing Your Rights: Supporting Immigrant

Students and their Families in Uncertain Times. American Educational

Martinez/11 Research Association, Division K. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York. Invited Presenter.

February 2018 Situación de los jóvenes migrantes en Nueva York. Universidad

Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico. Invited speaker. February 2018 Situación de los jóvenes migrantes en Nueva York. Universidad

Iberoamericana, Puebla, Puebla. Invited speaker. March 2016 ¿Estados Unidos o Polarizados? Los inmigrantes “Buenos” y “malos” en la

coyuntura actual. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. Invited Presenter.

March 2016 Taller metódologico sobre estudios migratorios. Instituto de Ciencias

Sociales y Humanidades, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. Invited Panelist.

February 2016 Artist Talk: Andrea Arroyo: Tribute to the Disappeared: The Students of

Ayotzinapa. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Brooklyn Museum. New York NY. Invited Panelist.

November 2015 Film Screening, “Ellis.” New York University Program

Board, New York University. New York, NY. Invited Panelist. November 2015 Dreamers and Doers: Unauthorized Youth Migrants on their Academic

Journeys. The College of New Jersey, Department of Women and Gender Studies. Ewing Township, NJ. Invited Speaker.

October 2015 Coyotes, crossings and courtrooms: Mexican and Central American

Minors’ searches for security and safety, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas. Invited Speaker.

June 2015 Libros y Libertad: Freedom through Books for Unaccompanied Minors REFORMA, The National Association to Promote Library and

Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. New York Public Library, New York, New York. Co-presenter.

May 2015 Something Old and Something New: Unaccompanied Latin American

Minor Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Tenement Talks, Tenement Museum, New York, New York. Invited Panelist.

October 2014 Something Old and Something New: The Not So Recent Phenomenon of

Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Migration, Bridging Historias through Latino History and Culture: An NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Project, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. Invited Speaker.

August 2014 Supporting Students and Professors: The importance of Peer Mentors in

First Year classrooms. Office of Undergraduate Studies, Student

Martinez/12 Academic Success Programs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. NY. Invited Presenter.

April 2014 Breaking Barriers: Navigating the Graduate School Admissions Process, 14th Annual Envisions Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York. Invited Keynote speaker.

May 2013 From Columbia Doctoral Student to CUNY Assistant Professor: Strategies of Success for Latina/o Graduate Students. 11th Annual EnVision Workshop for Latina/o Graduate Students Teachers College, Columbia University. Invited Panelist.

December 2012 Ten Boys Migrate a Day/Diez Chavitos Migran al dia: bracerita/os, Migration and Agency. Virtual Seminar on Mexican Migration

CUNY/BUAP, Puebla, Puebla, MX and New York, NY

2011 Global Learning Communities Across Borders: The Case of John Jay College and the University of Texas at El Paso

Center for the Advancement of Teaching John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY. Invited Presenter.

2011 Getting a Second Life: Exploring Scholarly Opportunities In Virtual Worlds

Culture, Liberal Arts and Society Scholars (CLASS) Hamilton College, Clinton NY. Invited Presenter.

2011 Getting a Second Life: Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities in the

Virtual World, Center for the Advancement of Teaching John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY. Invited Presenter. 2009 Acting like an Adult: Mexican Immigrant Youth Practices in New

York City, College 130: Coming of Age in America Hamilton College Clinton, NY 2009 Black-Brown Dynamic: Coalition Building across our Communities,

Latin-Hispanic Heritage Month, Wagner University, New York, NY 2008 Intersections of gender, nationality, citizenship and violence in the transnational field, Women’s History Month Women’s Studies Institute, University of Texas-San Antonio San Antonio, TX. Invited Speaker. 2008 ASPIRA 15th Annual City Youth Conference. “THE MOVEMENT: Recordando el Pasado, Viviendo el Presente, y Construyendo el Futuro!, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY. Invited Speaker 2007 From the Big Apple to Picking Apples: Educating Out of School

Mexican Immigrant Youth in New York City and Rural New York Board of Cooperative Educational Services/ Geneseo Migrant Center Syracuse, NY. Invited Speaker.

Martinez/13 2007 Envisioning Latin@ Studies: Whose Knowledge Anyway? Disrupting

Latinidad: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Latina/o Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, Maryland. Invited Speaker.

2007 Doctoral Students of Color: Our Experiences in the

Academy, Teacher’s College Committee on Community and Diversity, Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Invited Speaker.

Program Development 2014-Present The Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project Hybrid research-service project focusing on providing academic, social and legal support to recently arrived immigrant minors who are currently

in deportation proceedings and documenting and learning from their experiences and those who serve them. Partner: Safe Passage Project, New York Law School. Funders: CUNY Service Corps and U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate Studies and Foreign Language Program. Website: http://ulamp.weebly.com/ (Creator/Principal Investigator)

2013-Present Adelante! Latina/o Success Program Learning Community

A comprehensive academic program to support the success of students who are interested in Latina/o issues that includes coursework, leadership development and service learning. Partners: John Jay Office of Student Academic Success Programs and Hispanic Federation.

Website: http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/adelante-first-year (Faculty Director).

Curriculum Development and Teaching, Tenure-Track John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (2010-Present) Courses Created

LLS 2xx Special Topics: Brown Tide Rising: Interrogating Latina/o Identity Formation in the United States (First taught in F-16 as Special topics, submitted and approved as permanent course) This course is a National Global Learning Community between the Liberal Arts Honors Program at The University of Texas at El Paso and the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Throughout the semester, the students will be placed on cross-college teams and extend the “borders” of the classroom by collaborating on shared assignments using videoconferencing, SKYPE and an academic social network site. (Approved, Course offering starting fall 2019)

LLS 100 Adelante! First Year Seminar: Latina/o Struggle for Inclusion in Higher Education (F’14, F’15, F’16, F’18) As part of Adelante! (a comprehensive academic program to support the success of students who are interested in Latina/o issues), this course focuses on K-16 institutional policies and practices that have historically impacted Latina/o student enrollment in colleges and universities. Special emphasis on student success strategies and e-portfolio use.

Martinez/14 First Year Seminar Global Learning Communities, Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

ETH 124: Introduction to Latina/o Studies: Latinas in Cyberspace (S’13) ETH 124: Puerto Ricans and Other Hispanics in American Society: Remaking America: Latina/o Studies in the 21st Century (S’12) ETH 125 Race and Ethnicity in America: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Borders in American Colleges (F’11)

Courses Prepared and Taught

LLS341 Transfer Seminar: Immigrant Rights in the Americas (S’16) LLS247 Growing Up Latina/o (F’12, F’14, F’15) ETH 124 First Year Seminar: Introduction to Latina/o Studies (S’11, F’12, S’13) ETH 125 First Year Seminar: Race and Ethnicity in America (F’11) LLS 241 Puerto Ricans and Other Latina/os in United States Urban Settings (F’10, F’11) LLS 255The Latin American Woman in Global Society (formerly known as The Latin American Woman) (S’11, S’12, S’13, S’16)

Courses in Development

LLS 3XX Latina/os and the Digital Divide LLS 3XX The U.S.-Mexico Border

Curriculum Development and Teaching, Non-Tenure-Track Courses Prepared and Taught

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (2009-2010)

SOC 353 Sociology of Immigration in the United States (Sp’10) COL 245 The Borderlands (Sp’10) Team-taught.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (2006-2009)

ETH 124 Puerto Ricans and Other Hispanics in United States Society (F ‘06-Sp’08) ETH 125 Race and Ethnicity in America, Learning Communities

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

ETH 323 Chicanas in United States Society (SU’02) Research Experience 2014-Present Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project, Principal Investigator.

This project includes two research foci, one that examines the lives of unaccompanied child and teenage minors who have been apprehended, detained and placed into removal proceedings and their understandings of the aforementioned processes, age, immigration and human rights. The second focus aims to understand the impact that participating in ULAMP has on Latina/o college students. Data includes pre and post surveys, interviews and reflection papers to examine changes in knowledge, skills, self-efficacy and academic achievement related to this service-learning experience. (IRB#: 697045-1).

Martinez/15 2011-2014 PIERAN (Programa Interinstitucional de Estudios sobre la Región de America

del Norte), Co-Principal Investigator Project Title: 20 Years Later: Educational and labour expectations of immigrant youth and those who have returned to the NAFTA region: Canada, US and México. (IRB#: 388481-3). Principal Investigators: Gregorio Hernandez Zamora, Patricia Sanchez and Gloria Ramirez.

2007 Vanderbilt University/University of Chicago New York City Data Collection Manager Project Title: “Immigrant Parental Involvement in Schools, Communities and Politics”(April-August) Principal Investigator: Dr. Katharine Donato, Department of Sociology Hired/supervised and trained two John Jay College of Criminal Justice undergraduate students to conduct survey research, coordinated bilingual survey data collection in Washington Heights and South Bronx, New York City, and provided weekly data reports to national project manager at University of Chicago Survey Research Center 2004-2007 Columbia University of New York, New York, NY Research Assistant, Department of Sociology Project Title: “Making It Isn’t Enough: A study of intergenerational class transmission in the New York City Latina/o Middle Class” Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicole P. Marwell Assist in protocol design, participant recruitment and data collection for study examining intergenerational class transmission among New York City Latinos. Funded by Russell Sage Foundation 2004 Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, Texas Research Intern, Texas Community Development Association Designed and conducted quality of housing and life study of US-Mexico border residents in border colonias in Brownsville, and Port Isabel, Texas, including Cameron Park, Cameron County, Texas 2003 National Council for Community and Educational Partnerships Kellogg Summer Fellow, W.F. Kellogg Foundation Evaluate various sites in which ENLACE [Engaging Latino Communities in Education] is administered, including Lehman College, CUNY 2002-2003 Teachers College, Columbia University of New York Research Assistant, Department of Curriculum and Teaching Principal Investigator: Dr. Michelle G. Knight 2002 Project GRAD, Houston, TX Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics 2001 Latino Research Policy Center, University of Colorado at Denver Research Assistant Project Title: Nativism and the State-wide English Only Movement in Colorado Principal Investigator: Dr. Rene Galindo

Martinez/16 Other Professional Experience 2007 Blue Ridge Foundation of New York, New York, NY Summer Associate Provide strategic research-based technical assistance to startup nonprofit groups focusing youth development in high poverty New York communities. Organizations included Esperanza, targeting at- risk and adjudicated New York City youth (June-August) 2003-2004 Asociación Tepeyac, New York, NY ESL Instructor, Education Program Taught Advanced English as a Second Language 1996-2000 Community Family Center [formerly Chicano Family Center], Houston, TX Community Education Specialist, Youth Education Program; Funded by Texas Commission of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA) Developed and coordinated educational/social programs and resources for at-risk Latina/o youth and parents, developed collaborations with educational, business, and civic institutions, coordinated community and media relations/mobilization and conducted program evaluation; Grant writing. Professional Development/Training April 2016 Write Winning Grant Proposals Seminar Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Queens College March-April 2016 Digital Portfolio Faculty Development Program, Faculty Lead

Office of Student Academic and Success Programs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

February 2013 2nd Biannual Undergraduate Research Faculty Development Workshop Office of Undergraduate Research, John Jay College of Criminal Justice February 2013 Federal Funding Opportunities Workshop, MSIs/HSIs Office of Advancement of Research, John Jay College of Criminal Justice January 2013 Grants 101 Workshop, Faculty Development Day

Office of Advancement of Research/Office of Sponsored Programs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

2011, 2012, 2013 First Year Seminar Faculty Workshop Office of Student Academic Success Programs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2011 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop

Center for the Advancement of Teaching, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

2011 Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop Using Maps and Spatial Data

Martinez/17 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (January)

2009 Workshop Fellow, Social Science Research Council, Children of Immigrants in Schools, New York, NY, (October) 2009 Workshop Fellow, American Educational Research-American Black Sociologists Graduate Student Workshop Fellow, New Orleans, LA. 2004-2006 Cultivating New Voices of Color Fellow, National Council on Teaching of English 2004 Lone Star Fellow, Texas Association of Community Development Corporations, Austin, TX. 2003 Kellogg Fellow, National Council for Community and Educational Partnerships, Washington, DC. 2002 Ford Foundation Junior Associate Fellow, Ford Foundation, New York, NY. Declined. 2001 Hispanic Caucus, Fellow, American Association of Higher Education. University Service City University of New York 2018 PSC-CUNY Traditional B Award Evaluation Committee City University of New York, New York, NY 2016 PSC-CUNY Traditional B Award Evaluation Committee City University of New York, New York, NY. 2016 CUNY Service Corps, Faculty Projects Focus Group on New York State Experiential Learning Law 2015 PSC-CUNY Traditional B Award Evaluation Committee City University of New York, New York, NY. 2014-Present CUNY Service Corps, Faculty-led Project City University of New York, New York, NY. 2012-2015 CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, Executive Board Member City University of New York, New York, NY. May 2013 Mexico-New York: Thirty Years of Migration Conference (Co-Organizer) Institute of Mexican Studies, City University of New York 2012, 2013 CUNY-Instituto de Mexicanos en los Exteriores Becas Selection Committee (Chair, 2013) City University of New York and Mexican Consulate General-NY

Martinez/18 2012-Present Committee on Academic Technology, Alternate City University of New York, New York, NY 2012-Present Committee on Academic Technology, Academic Commons City University of New York, New York, NY 2011-2012 Blackboard Committee on Academic Technology City University of New York, New York, NY 2011-2012 Mexican Studies Institute Planning Committee City University of New York, New York, NY. 2011-2012 Strengthening Educational Opportunities for Mexicans and Mexican Americans Task Force Committee City University of New York, New York, NY. John Jay College of Criminal Justice College-Wide Spring 2018 Provost Search Committee 2017-2018 Hispanic Serving Institution Planning Committee 2017-Present Immigrant Student Success Center Planning Committee Fall 2017 Invited Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Honors Program August 2017 Presenter. Supporting Undocumented Students and Families, Faculty

Development Day. Spring 2016 Invited Professor, Women’s Center for Gender Justice Spring 2016 Member, Search Committee, Center for Advancement of Teaching 2015-Present Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Undocumented Student Initiative 2015-Present Faculty Director: Adelante! Latina/o Success Program, Collaboration

between the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies and the Office of Student Academic Success Programs.

Fall 2015 Member, John Jay 2020 Strategic Plan Implementation Committee,

Objective Five: Enhance John Jay’s Identity as a Hispanic Serving Institution

June 2015 Member, Search Committee, Apple Corps Student Success Specialist. Student Academic Success Programs. April 2015 Faculty Participant, Site Visit, Title V Grant: Success Through

Engagement: Development of a Comprehensive Program to promote

Martinez/19 research in science and first year transition towards increasing persistence and graduation rates of Hispanic Students. Student Academic Success Programs.

April 2015 Faculty Participant, John Jay Self-Study/College Examination. 2014-2015 Participant, Faculty Inquiry Group, Student Academic Success Program. 2014-2015 Member, Advisory Committee, Office of Undergraduate Research. 2013-Present Research Advisory Committee, Office of the Advancement of Research, 2012-2013 Faculty Senate Technology Committee March-April 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee Center for the Advancement of Teaching November 2012 Invited Speaker, John Jay Open House October 2012 Invited Speaker, Middle States Discussion on Liberal Arts Education August 2012 New Faculty Orientation, Lunch Speaker 2011-Present Assessment Committee, Office of Student Academic Success Programs 2010-2011 Member, Faculty Senate, Department of Latin American and Latina/o

Studies 2011 Participant, Grant: Reading More and Reading More Effectively Center for the Advancement of Teaching, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY 2010-Present First Year Experience Planning Committee Office of the First Year Experience John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY Department 2017-2018 Major/Minor Coordinator 2017-2018 Curriculum Committee Chair 2016 Organizer, Safe Zone Member Training. Department of Counseling. 2015 Moderator, Violence and Impunity in Mexico: Ayotzinapa and Beyond

Report Presentation: Broken Justice in Mexico's Guerrero State A Joint Program of The Open Society Institute and the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies

2014-Present Member, Curriculum and Grades Appeal Committee 2011-2012 Member, Promotion and Budget Committee

Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies

Martinez/20 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

2010-Present Presenter, Honors Workshop, Research and Writing Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY 2006-2009 Mentor, Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Provide graduate school and professional development advising to undergraduate and graduate students Hamilton College 2009-2010 Co-Organizer, “Thursday Nighters” Department of Africana Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Organize and conduct study breaks/professional development workshops for Black/Latina/o Student Union

Supervision, Mentoring and Advising of Student Research John Jay College 2017-2018 Nathaly Ramirez, Honors Thesis, The Case of U-LAMP: An examination of Service-Learning at an Hispanic Serving Institution, John Jay College of

Criminal Justice Honors Program. Faculty Advisor. 2017-2018 Rosa Calosso, McNair Thesis, Learning to Work: Impacts on Juvenile

Recidivism. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, McNair Program. Faculty Advisor

2015-2016 Gladys Rivera-Martinez, Honors Thesis “NarcoJovenes? An examination

of teenagers’ understandings of Narcoculture in Puebla, Mexico,” John Jay College of Criminal Justice Honors Program. Faculty Advisor.

2014-2015 Danyeli Rodriguez, Honors Thesis “Transnationalism, Space, Race and

Gender: The Role of New York City in Shaping Feminist Ideologies of Afro-Dominican Women.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice Honors Program. Faculty Advisor. *Awarded, Humanities and Justice Prize

2014-2015 Daniela Molina, Honors Thesis “Mestizaje: The Mexican Façade of a State

of Inequality and Exclusion. John Jay College of Criminal Justice Honors Program. Faculty Advisor.

Summer 2014 Yajaira Cabrera, Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Research

Internship. “We used “el Skype”: The use of technology to transmit gender norms among Dominican Mothers and Daughters.” Faculty Mentor.

2013-Present Yajaira Cabrera, Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement

Program, “Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Expectations Between First Generation Dominican Mothers and their Daughters in New

Martinez/21 York City.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice McNair Scholars Program. Faculty Advisor.

2013-2014 Yalitza Rodriguez, John Jay College of Criminal Justice McNair Scholars

Program. Faculty Advisor. 2011-2013 Elizabeth Calixto, John Jay College of Criminal Justice McNair Scholars

Program. Faculty Advisor. 2011-2012 Daynia Vazquez, B.A., Forensic Psychology, Minor Latin American

and Latina/o Studies. Minor Honors Thesis, “Latinidad in the South Bronx.” Faculty Advisor.

2010-2011 Maria Xique, B.A., International Criminal Justice, Minor Latin American

and Latina/o Studies. Minor Honors Thesis, “Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070.” Faculty Advisor.

Professional Affiliations and Memberships

• Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) • Latino Studies Association (LSA) • Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) • Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR)