 Martin grew up in Pleasanton , California , where she attended Amador Valley High School , graduating in 2002 . She became interested in journalism when her old high school boyfriend enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks in 2001 . " I didn 't want him going to war , let alone fighting in one , " she recalls . " I began to critically ask ' What is really going on ? ' " By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University , she began questioning what she called the " selling " of the Iraq War by the media . She received an undergraduate degree in political science and minored in Spanish . 
