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13 Facts About Martha Mendoza

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Martha Mendoza was born on August 16,1966 and is an Associated Press journalist whose reporting has helped free over 2,000 enslaved fishermen and prompted action by the US Congress and the White House.

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Martha Mendoza earned her first Pulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reporting category in 2000 as part of a team of Associated Press journalists that uncovered the massacre of Korean civilians by US soldiers at the No Gun Ri bridge during the Korean War.

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Martha Mendoza is currently an AP national reporter based in Northern California and a member of AP's Global Investigative Team.

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Martha Mendoza was born on August 16,1966, in Los Angeles, California, to parents of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.

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Martha Mendoza'a father, Harry Snyder, is an attorney who served as Peace Corps director in Nepal and Western Samoa and as associate Peace Corps director in India.

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Martha Mendoza graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1988.

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In college, Martha Mendoza played soccer for the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, wrote for the school newspaper City on a Hill Press and played French horn in the school symphony.

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Martha Mendoza became an Associated Press reporter in 1995, starting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Martha Mendoza has since reported from Silicon Valley, New York, New Mexico, Mexico City and Bangkok, covering everything from human trafficking to cyber security.

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Martha Mendoza has taught in the University of California Santa Cruz Science Communications Program for over a decade.

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Martha Mendoza earned her second Pulitzer Prize in 2016 as part of the AP reporting team, along with Esther Htusan, Margie Mason, and Robin McDowell, that exposed the use of forced labor in the fishing industry in Southeast Asia and its connections to seafood sales in the United States.

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In 2011, Martha Mendoza led a major investigation into countries with freedom of information laws as part of the AP global freedom of information project.

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Martha Mendoza has continued her journalistic focus on forced labor and seafood issues.

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