Sara Martinez

Sara Martínez was the founding coordinator for Tulsa City-County Library's Hispanic Resource Center where she hosted a myriad of Latinx writers from Gustavo Arellano to Pam Muñoz Ryan to Matt de la Peña. She currently manages the Nathan Hale branch, the smallest and one of the busiest branches in Tulsa. Sara has also served as a past chair of the Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission for Tulsa City and County; recent projects include a Courageous Community Conversations as well as the annual Tomás Rivera Recognition Ceremony for Latinx Excellence in Education. Sara edited ABC-CLIO’s genre guide Latino Literature. A Guide to Reading Interests and wrote The Chicano Movement. Historical Explorations of Literature. After receiving her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, Sara moved to Mexico City to do graduate work in Latin American Studies and Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She received her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Oklahoma.