Norma Martinez
Morning Edition / Fronteras Hostnorma@tpr.org
Twitter: @NormDog1
Norma Martinez is a native of El Paso and a veteran of public broadcasting. She began volunteering at the El Paso public radio station KTEP as a college student in 1989. She spent a year as a Morning Edition host and reporter at KRWG-FM in Las Cruces, New Mexico, before returning to KTEP as a full-time employee in 1995. At KTEP, Norma served as Morning Edition host, chief announcer, Traffic Director, PSA Director, and host and producer of various local shows.
Norma also voiced numerous commercials and worked part-time as a DJ at country, adult contemporary, and classic rock stations in El Paso.
Norma is a 1993 graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, earning a BA in Music Performance. She spent 23 years as a cellist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, and currently plays with the all-volunteer Symphony Viva.
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"Embodied Encuentros" outlines the best practices in gathering and archiving the oral experiences of Latino communities. -
Rising costs and labor shortages are squeezing restaurants; questions over the deaths of two CIA agents in Mexico; Spurs accolades accumulate; weather is cooperating for Fiesta parades this weekend -
Appeals court upholds TX Ten Commandments law; Judson ISD terminates superintendent's contract; Wemby suffers a concussion; inside Fiesta's Cornyation
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Ready to Work participants in need of gas cards due to high gas prices; 50K tree seedlings at SA Botanical Garden will replace trees destroyed in the Hill Country; Fiesta Fiesta officially kicks off Fiesta San Antonio
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The "A Mirror and a Map" report by NALAC examines how these groups are faring in factors ranging from financial stability to leadership structures. -
A historic preservationist Sehila Mota Casper discusses how the history and legacy of the farmworkers movement will evolve following new revelations against Chávez. -
San Antonio Book Festival executive director Lisa Ayres previews this weekend's San Antonio Book Festival with one of the featured authors, Marcia Argueta Mickelson. -
Retired Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut Eileen Collins and filmmaker Hannah Berryman talk about the new documentary Spacewoman. -
The book "Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas" explores the colonial history of this all-but-forgotten Spanish fort and mission. -
"Censorship at Texas A&M" is a film that follows prominent writers and activists as they bring attention to the crackdown of race and gender studies at Texas universities.
