Martina Guzmán

Founder, VERDAD

Martina Guzmán is the founder of VERDAD, a pioneering AI tool that monitors and exposes disinformation on Spanish-language radio stations. As a media analyst, she has long explored how technology can empower journalism, amplify immigrant voices and confront misinformation at its source.

A nationally recognized journalist and engagement specialist, Martina has built a career rooted in community and accountability. She is a former Damon J. Keith Journalism Fellow and a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and founder of the Race & Justice Reporting Initiative at Wayne State University Law School. Over more than two decades working at the intersection of race, community, and media, she has trained journalists across the country on how to report with communities—not just about them. Her rare combination of institutional media experience and on-the-ground advocacy positions her uniquely to lead conversations that bridge lived experience and newsroom practice.

Martina’s reporting has appeared on NPR, The Guardian, Slate, PBS, PRI’s The World and Next City, among many others. She served as the Detroit correspondent for The Takeaway, a national public radio program produced by Public Radio International and WNYC. During her tenure at WDET, Detroit’s NPR affiliate, her community-centered reporting earned her the Associated Press award for Best Statewide Individual Reporter.

Martina’s work has been supported by numerous grants and reporting fellowships, including the MacArthur Foundation, the Reynolds Journalism Institute, the German Marshall Fund and the Ford Foundation.
A lifelong Detroiter, Martina is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism in New York City.