Bridging Research & Public Insight
Peer-Reviewed & Academic Work
Martinez, Brandon P. 2022. Miami: From winter resort to hemispheric capital. In Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance (pp. 66–99). https://doi.org/10.7312/port20516-005
Johnson, Oshea D., Petersen, Nick, & Martinez, Brandon P. 2022. Punishing neighborhood “outsiders”: Neighborhood punishment rates and the spatial mis(match) between defendants’ residence and arrest locations. Crime & Delinquency, 70(1), 206–233. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221117757
Martinez, Brandon P., & Portes, Alejandro. 2021. Bilingualism and achievement in the Spanish second generation: A longitudinal study. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(10), 1825–1845. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1981967
Martinez, Brandon P., & Aja, Alan A. 2020. How race counts for Latinx homeownership. Critical Sociology, 47(6), 993–1011. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520974086
Martinez, Brandon P., & Portes, Alejandro. 2021. Latin American cities: Their evolution under neoliberalism and beyond. Sociology of Development, 7(1), 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2021.7.1.25
Martinez, Brandon P. 2021. Emerging structure of housing stratification: Visualizing homeownership by generational status, 1995 to 2019. Socius, 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023120980323
Martinez, Brandon P. 2021. The Case of Cubans: Racial inequality in U.S. homeownership and home values. Sociological Forum, 36, 181–205. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12666
Martinez, Brandon P., Petersen, Nick, & Omori, Marisa. 2019. Time, money, and punishment: Institutional racial-ethnic inequalities in pretrial detention and case outcomes. Crime & Delinquency, 66(6–7), 837–863. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128719881600
Public-Facing Work
Strengthening Cross-System Collaboration for Greater Impact
New York City benefits from a rich landscape of service providers with deep knowledge of their communities. Yet, organizational siloes mean people may nonetheless struggle to fully benefit from all that’s available. This brief uses case studies from several programs to identify key ways organizations can ensure that strong, community-based, cross-system partnerships are successful in supporting participants and growing organizational capacity.
Healing, Resilience, Self-Care, Investment: Participants Share their Experiences Healing from Trauma
Everyone has a different pathway to healing from trauma. In East Harlem, one program is tapping into an array of established and up-and-coming methods to give its participants the tools to both heal from past trauma and face new challenges safely and healthily. Here’s what some of them had to say about their experiences.
Strengthening Services through Data & Collaborative Knowledge Sharing
Participatory research gives community stakeholders a voice in evaluating the programs designed to support them. It creates partnerships between them and evaluation staff to understand program implementation processes, identify challenges, and propose recommendations. One such approach, community-based participatory research (CBPR), incorporates the perspectives of research staff, program staff, participants, and funders in research design and execution.
Research findings from a recent evaluation of the Margaret’s Place in Communities Impacted by Trauma-exposed Youth (MP-CITY) MP-CITY program have proven to be useful for strengthening the program’s operations and participant experiences. Drawing from three key lessons learned, the program streamlined its screening process and began translating materials to create a more tailored experience for students.
An innovative assessment approach successfully measures trauma and healing among families impacted by gender-based violence. Administered by a holistic and innovative program in Manhattan that provides family-focused programming, the approach helped participants better understand their healing journeys.