S. Atyia Martin is the chief executive officer and founder of All Aces, Inc., an education social enterprise with a mission to activate the power of consciousness, critical thinking, and community to catalyze transformative action that advances racial equity and resilience. All Aces provides its clients with speaking engagements, coaching, strategic workshops, and an online learning community, DynamIQImpact.com. Additionally, Martin serves as a distinguished senior fellow at Northeastern University's Global Resilience Institute.
As a certified emergency manager, her previous professional roles include chief resilience officer for the City of Boston, director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness at the Boston Public Health Commission, and adjunct faculty in the master’s of homeland security at Northeastern University. Martin has also held positions at the Boston Police Department’s Boston Regional Intelligence Center, City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Air Force as active duty assigned to the National Security Agency, and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.
Martin and her husband were born and raised in Boston where they currently live. They co-founded Next Leadership Development Corporation, a nonprofit focused on building resilience in Black households and communities. They have five children, two still at home.