She completed the W.K. Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health between 2010-2012. In that postdoctoral fellowship, she learned to conduct community based participatory research (CBPR). In 2010, she received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California-San Francisco. Her areas of research interest include: Community-Based Participatory Research; Gender; Global & Transnational Sociology; Grounded Theory/Situational Analysis; Mixed Methods; Race & Ethnicity (Latinxs); Sociology of Health and Illness; and Sociology of Food. At Yale, Dr. Martinez will contribute to areas of interest in the Center for the study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, both for graduate and undergraduate students. For Sociology, she will engage in issues such as migration, ethnicity, inequality and health.