Nicholas C. Martinez

2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai once said, “One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”

As an ACUE nationally certified online educator, Nicholas C. Martinez sees this as his foundational impetus for educating. Throughout his career, Martinez employed a successful mixture of digital multimedia tools and classical pedagogical techniques — both in person and through distance learning classes — in an effort to make his classroom a safe haven for educational adventure, investigation and exploration.

Martinez believes when students share their beliefs and insights freely, all will benefit from the intellectual discourse, for all learn new perspectives and new ideas. During this process, students become the arbiters of their own destinies by employing and enhancing their own skill sets (what Martinez likes to refer to in class as their own “personal prism” through which they view the world) with the new concepts they learn from their peers in an effort to become fully realized and well-rounded individuals.

Martinez, an accomplished educator with over a decade of teaching experience on K-12 and post-secondary levels, is currently on track to complete State University of New York - Old Westbury’s Advanced Certificate Program in Adolescence Education for English (Grades 7-12) in December 2026.

Martinez' most memorable work experience came when he served as a Teaching Artist at 826NYC, a non-profit organization focused on helping middle and high school students develop positive communication skills through creative writing. There he led the "Dungeons and Dragons and Writers" workshop, a weekly class that used the popular tabletop roleplaying game as inspiration and fuel for student creative arts. The workshop's year-long semester culminated with the publication of the student's collective works in a distributed chapter book received by the authors, their families and ultimately sold in the program's storefront for public consumption. It was an opportunity for these students to show the community their creative abilities both as oral storytellers and creative writers. “It was the most fun I’ve had teaching to date,” Nicholas said. “And I will cherish those moments with ‘The Wannabes’ (my students’ name for their adventuring group) for the rest of my life.”

Martinez is also an alumnus of the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, and has seen his efforts published by major organizations like the adidas Grand Prix, the New York Times, the American Red Cross, the New York Daily News and NBC News.

Personally, Nicholas is also an avid video gamer and pursued voice acting as another creative avenue with the hopes of turning it into a potential employment opportunity. Using talents like Kevin Conroy, Matthew Mercer and Tara Strong as inspiration, Nicholas wants to one day give life to an animated superhero (or villain) for the small or big screen (You can listen to his demo here and he is available for booking via this contact address).

Lover of all things funny, witty and artistic, Nicholas also hopes to write the great American novel or the great American superhero screenplay. One day. Soon.