Yvonne Martinez

Yvonne Martinez is a retired labor negotiator/organizer. She has been published in ZyZZyVA, Crab Orchard Review, Labor Notes and NPR. She also formerly wrote a local labor blog in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her forthcoming memoir in essays, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman, covers her childhood in Salt Lake City/South Central/Boyle Heights and her work as a labor negotiator/organizer in California and the Pacific Northwest. Her play Scabmuggers is based on her experience as a National Fellow of the Harvard Trade Union Program in 1994. Yvonne lives in Berkeley, CA, and Portland, OR.

"This sharp authobiographical account deftly illuminates prejudice in the American work place."

- KIRKUS REVIEWS

University Mass Amherst, Amherst MA.

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, CA