Ixchel Martinez

A licensed social worker and alumni of care, Ixchel is a healing guru. Ixchel’s story is one of mental fortitude and tenacity. She has advocated for youth at both a local and federal level, always pulling up a chair for the foster youth around her. Her specialty is childhood trauma and crisis intervention and she eats, sleeps, and breathes resilience. Tune in to hear about how Ixchel’s education gave language to the grit she developed growing up in the system.