

The ‘Environmental Injustice of Beauty’: The Role That Pressure to Conform Plays In Use of Harmful Hair, Skin Products Among Women of Color By Victoria St. In Atlanta, Proposed ‘Cop City’ Stirs Environmental Justice Concerns By Victoria St. MartinĮnvironmentalists Praise the EPA’s Move to Restrict ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water and Wonder, What’s Next? By Victoria St. Q&A: The Power of One Voice, and Now, Many: The Lawyer Who Sounded the Alarm on ‘Forever Chemicals’ By Victoria St. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Live in Communities With Harmful Air Quality, Study Shows By Victoria St. She Found Black Americans ‘Live Sicker and Die Quicker’ By Victoria St. Q&A: Linda Villarosa Took on the Perils of Medical Racism. Martin is particularly interested in health care disparities affecting Black women. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and has written extensively about the prevalence of breast cancer in young women. Martin is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a master’s degree from American University’s School of Communication. She currently teaches at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Martin is also a journalism educator who spent four years as a distinguished visiting journalist with the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to her newsroom experience, St. Martin has also worked at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, The Trentonian, The South Bend Tribune and WNIT, the PBS-member station serving north central Indiana. During a 20-year career in journalism, she has worked in a half dozen newsrooms, including The Washington Post where she served as a breaking news and general assignment reporter.


Martin covers health and environmental justice at Inside Climate News.
