A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one-time finalist, 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. During her Associated Press career, she’s been based in Mexico City, Bangkok, Silicon Valley, New York and New Mexico and is currently a member of the AP’s Investigative Team. Mendoza studied journalism and obtained a California teaching credential the University of California, Santa Cruz where she has since returned 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. In 2020 she won an Emmy for a FRONTLINE/PBS collaboration “Kids Caught In The Crackdown.”