About Elena Martinez

Elena Martinez is the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center and has been a Folklorist at City Lore since 1997. Her work has included getting Casa Amadeo (the longest continually-run Latin music store in NYC) nominated to the National Register of Historic Places (the first nomination relating to the Puerto Rican experience on the mainland); and nominating master Puerto Rican lacemaker (the art of mundillo) Rosa Elena Egipciaco for a NEA National Heritage Award. She co-produced the documentary, From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale, which aired on PBS in September 2006 and won the NCLR’s (National Council of La Raza) 2007 ALMA Award for Best TV Documentary. She was a producer for the documentary, We Like It LikeThat: The Story of Latin Boogaloo, which premiered at the SXSW Festival in 2015.