Speakers

Martha Mendoza

Correspondent, FRONTLINE

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. Her investigations into slavery in the Thai seafood business led to the freedom of more than 2,000 men, and she helped uncover a US Army massacre of hundreds of civilians during the Korean War.

Currently a FRONTLINE correspondent, Mendoza won a 2020 Emmy for a documentary “Kids Caught In The Crackdown,” about the detention of migrant children. A year later she won an IRE award for “America’s Medical Supply Crisis,” about deadly shortages during the pandemic.

During her AP career, Mendoza covered the war on drugs, human trafficking, social injustice and corruption.

Mendoza has taught for more than a decade at UCSC’s Science Communication program. She is a Fulbright Specialist and was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a Ferris Professor at Princeton University.