Martha was born in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. As part of the El Manglito fishing community, she became involved in fishing and married a fisherman. She belongs to an organization called OPRE (Organización de Pescadores Rescatando La Ensenada), where she, along with 13 other women, conducts surveillance tours by land and sea. She wants to learn to dive so she can participate more actively in fishery restoration activities, such as monitoring the health of the ecosystem in order to understand what other problems affect their fishery.