Martha Nelle Pskowski is a bilingual freelance journalist based in Mexico City. She reports on the politics of urban and environmental change in the Americas. Martha is from Maryland and has reported from Latin America since 2014.
Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Republic, Sierra, City Lab and over a dozen other publications. Martha is a Latin America stringer for The Tablet of London. The International Women in Media Foundation and the James W. Foley Foundation have supported her reporting.
She is a former staff reporter at The News, a Mexico City English-language publication. From 2014 to 2015 she was a Fulbright fellow, working with researchers at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. Martha is a runner and cyclist in Mexico City.
Sierra Magazine: As Palm Plantations Grab Land, Mayan Women Organize4 December, 2018
Viewpoint Magazine: The Rebel Project of the Caravan1 December, 2018
CityLab: Migrant Caravan Rolls Into Mexico City8 November, 2018
The National: Maligned by Trump, earthquake-hit Mexican town receives migrant caravan with open arms6 November, 2018
HWGTN: How Outdated Cars Live on in a Smoggy Afterlife2 November, 2018
New York Magazine: The Pirate Cell Towers of Rural Mexico2 November, 2018
Longreads: To Tell the Story, These Journalists Became Part of the Story14 October, 2018
CityLab: Mexico City’s Architects of Destruction27 September, 2018
NACLA/Americas Program: The Emergency Isn’t Over27 September, 2018
Culinary Backstreets: Tortas Robles- A Sandwich For the Pueblo6 September, 2018
DeSmogBlog: Sempra Energy Plans to Export Fracked Gas on the West Coast — via Mexico7 August, 2018
CityLab: The Long Road to Mexico City’s First Elected Woman Mayor7 August, 2018