Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera is the education and urban affairs editor at The Texas Tribune. He previously worked as a digital editor at KUT.org, breaking news editor at the Austin American-Statesman and content editor at the University of Texas' Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Before that he worked as a reporter for several English- and Spanish-language publications covering the U.S.-Mexico border, drug violence, immigration, technology and public safety. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from UT, grew up in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and has impossibly high standards when it comes to tacos al pastor.