Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez

Martinez has been a social justice activist for 40 years. Her anti-race work began in 1960, and became full time when she traveled to Mississippi for the 1964 Summer Project for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. She moved to New Mexico in 1968 to found a Chicano movement newspaper and later the Chicano Communications Center. She was also involved in the women's and anti-Vietnam war movements, she went on to live in the Bay Area where she has been an anti-racist workshop organizer.

Martinez has been a social justice activist for 40 years. Her anti-race work began in 1960, and became full time when she traveled to Mississippi for the 1964 Summer Project for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. She moved to New Mexico in 1968 to found a Chicano movement newspaper and later the Chicano Communications Center. She was also involved in the women's and anti-Vietnam war movements, she went on to live in the Bay Area where she has been an anti-racist workshop organizer. See less