AT-PROMISE YOUTH SOLUTIONS - Key Persons

Elizabeth Martinez is an experienced bilingual interventionist, crisis counselor, mediator and educator who has worked with high risk ("at-promise") youth for over 20 years. She has extensive experience in program development, management and evaluation. Mrs. Martinez's work includes local government agencies, public schools, non-profits, grassroots start-ups and faith-based organizations, working with gangs, pregnant and parenting teens, dropouts, foster care and refugee and immigrant youth and families. Elizabeth has worked in the US, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Bahrain, Russia and Tanzania. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Houston and hopes to open an alternative school for at-promise youth in the near future.