Emmanuel Martinez will be joining The Markup as an investigative data journalist.
Before joining the team at Markup, Martinez had been working as a data journalist at Reveal for the past six years.
His most notable work was “Kept Out” in which he analyzed 31 million housing records to show that people of color were being denied mortgages in 61 major U.S. metro areas. His work was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizes and won a Peabody Award, among others.
Martinez has also worked as a data reporter and held the post of Google Fellow at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Before that, he was a data intern at KPCC.