Writer/Reporter

Email: martha@connectforkids.org

While growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, Martha Pitts dreamed of becoming many things: a doctor, a teacher, an archaeologist, and a writer. In 1999, after another failed experiment in the organic chemistry lab at Princeton University, Martha walked out, and the next day, she entered the brick building that housed the offices of the Daily Princetonian and wrote her first story.

Since graduating in 2001 with a degree in English literature, Martha has worked as a freelance writer, journalist, copyeditor, and proofreader. Her writing has appeared in the Washington City Paper, the Times-Picayune, and Biz New Orleans. Martha has taught journalism to high school students in New Orleans, and she was a writing fellow at Medill’s Academy for Alternative Journalism. Martha contributed to The African American National Biography, a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press covering 10,000 African American individuals who may have been left out of the history books.

Because of her strong desire to better the lives of children, Martha trained as a court appointed special advocate to give a voice to abused and neglected kids in the foster care system. She is excited that she has the opportunity to combine her interests in child advocacy and writing for Connect for Kids.