Kathryn Styer Martínez
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.
Latest Stories
Bend homelessness advocates press US Forest Service to delay fuels reduction project
The Bend Equity Project asked the U.S. Forest Service on March 25 to delay its Cabin Butte Vegetation Management Project set to begin soon in the Deschutes National Forest.
Landfill deal between Deschutes County and Hooker Creek falls through
Deschutes County reconvenes its committee to find a new location for a landfill. Knott Landfill is projected to reach capacity in spring of 2031.
Deschutes County pays $150,000 settlement over alleged gender discrimination
Deschutes County pays $150,000 to deputy district attorney to settle alleged pay inequity due to gender discrimination.
Central Oregon groups help create authentic celebrations for Asians and Pacific Islanders
In Central Oregon, the Asian and Pacific Islanders Collective provides safe spaces for people to connect and learn about different API cultures, and also educates people who were perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
City of Bend sees surge of interest in human rights and equity commission
The city of Bend receives a surge in applications to join its Human Rights and Equity Commission, a volunteer advisory board.
Nonprofit Oregon avalanche centers relatively insulated from federal chaos
Two nonprofit avalanche forecasting centers in Oregon rely on tools and information from federal agencies but do not receive federal or state funding.
Deschutes County dissolved its DEIA committee without hearing public opinions. Officials got an earful anyway
As national politics hit home, over 200 people, including county staff, pushed back.
Hundreds gathered in Bend to remember couple killed by avalanche
Hundreds attended the public memorial for Terry and Renee Skjersaa. The couple was killed in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in the Central Cascades on Feb. 17.
Skiers killed in Central Oregon avalanche identified
Friends found the couple deceased shortly before midnight. Their bodies were buried by an avalanche in Happy Valley, a popular winter recreation area near Broken Top Mountain in the Central Cascades mountain range. Search and rescue crews recovered the bodies Tuesday morning.
Central Oregon nonprofit acquires land for job training hub
Heart of Oregon provides training in childcare, forestry and construction, three of Central Oregon’s in-demand industries.