Martinez joins Big Bend CC Board of Trustees

MOSES LAKE — Bethany Martinez of Mattawa has been appointed to the Big Bend Community College Board of Trustees.

Martinez is the director of multilingual and multicultural services for the Wahluke School District. Her first meeting will be Dec. 6.

She replaces Tom Stredwick, who resigned his seat earlier this fall. Stredwick served on the board for five years.

Martinez has worked for WSD for more than 18 years, both as a classroom teacher and in administration. She has taught every grade from kindergarten through high school, according to a press release from BBCC, and worked as an intervention specialist, bilingual teacher and oversaw the WSD program for English language development for ELL students.

“The more I talk with recently graduated students in our community, the more I am becoming aware of their challenges when continuing their education beyond high school,” Martinez wrote in the press release. “I think that community colleges are uniquely situated to meet that need.”

Martinez is a member of the Dual Language Steering Committee at the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a youth sports coach and secretary for the district’s sport nonprofit, Wahluke United. Martinez has three children.