Martha Mendoza

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She was part of a team whose investigations into slavery in the Thai seafood business led to the freedom of more than 2,000 men. And she was part of a team that uncovered a US Army massacre of hundreds of civilians during the Korean War. Currently a FRONTLINE correspondent, Mendoza won a 2020 Emmy for “Kids Caught In The Crackdown,” about the detention of migrant children. A year later she won an Investigative Editors and Reporters award for “America’s Medical Supply Crisis,” a documentary holding those responsible for deadly shortages during the pandemic. During her Associated Press career, Mendoza covered the war on drugs while based in Mexico City, and focused on human trafficking while working in Bangkok. She spent years covering tech inequality, booms and busts in the Silicon Valley. Mendoza studied journalism and obtained a California teaching credential the University of California, Santa Cruz where she has continued to teach for more than a decade in the Master’s Science Communication program. She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a Ferris Professor at Princeton University.