Jessica Martínez Santos is the president of Servidores Públicos Unidos de Puerto Rico (SPUPR/AFSCME Council 95) and the president of Alianza Correccional Unida (ACU/AFSCME Local 3500), which represents correctional officers in Puerto Rico. She began her union advocacy in July 2019, when she took the lead in publicly denouncing the lack of security in Puerto Rico’s penal institutions following the death of a fellow officer at the hands of an inmate. As president of ACU, Martínez helped achieve the local’s largest salary increase in its history, and as president of SPUPR her vision has been aimed at helping workers obtain all the necessary tools to serve as agents of change in their communities. Martínez has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and serves as a correctional officer at the Ponce Correctional Complex. She is the daughter of two retired public service workers and has two children, Jeyleann and Sebasthian, to whom she is teaching the importance of labor rights and unionism.