Kathryn Styer Martínez is a reporter for OPB covering Bend and Central Oregon. She is an award-winning, nationally recognized journalist and has worked in local news for KQED, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper The Press Democrat, and Minnesota Public Radio News as a Toni Randolph Fellow where her reporting won an award from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
She was a production assistant with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where she worked on award-winning and Peabody-nominated projects Mississippi Goddam and the Covid Tracking Project as well as the award-winning After Ayotzinapa series. She helped produce and contributed reporting to Buried Secrets, a series by ICT senior correspondent Mary Annette Pember and Reveal about Indian boarding schools.
She got her start as an intern at KPFA News in the San Francisco Bay Area where she lived for 20 years before relocating to Oregon. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.