Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Martha Retallick earned an economics degree from the University of Michigan. She has worked in all sorts of jobs since then. We’re talking everything from digging ditches to writing press releases, running cash registers to annotating academic books, and repairing bicycles to helping produce a magazine.

When she was in her early twenties, Martha set the goal of bicycling through all 50 of the United States. She accomplished this over a 12-year period, and wrote and published two books about her experiences. You can see where Martha went by visiting her bicycle, nature, and travel photography portfolios.

Martha carries this diversified background into her graphic design and photography, which draw on her skills in business, computers, and publishing. She has been active on the Internet and in website development since 1995.

She designs impressive websites that download quickly and work in all major browsers – not just Internet Explorer on the PC. This means that your website will conform to Web Standards, the Internet’s internationally accepted "rules of the road." It also means each website is optimized for search-engine success.

In addition to websites, she can design a wide variety of printed materials, including logos, advertisements, direct mail campaigns, flyers, and stationery systems.

Martha’s designs can be enhanced through her photography, which provides a more realistic view of your organization than those generic images you sometimes find on the Web. Rather than resorting to artificial, posed situations, she does candid photography that shows people, places, and events as they really are.

Martha’s Business and Community Affiliations

• Eller College Associates, Eller College of Management at The University of Arizona
• International Friends, Inc.
• KXCI 91.3 FM Community Radio Technology Committee
• National Professional Science Master’s Association
• Teaching and Helping Project Green Retrofit Co-op
• Tucson Digital Arts Community
• Tucson Photography Meetup
• U.S. Green Building Council Arizona Chapter
• Watershed Management Group Water Harvesting Co-op
• Frequent contributor to Freelance Switch

Martha has also worked on a wide variety of community service projects, including:

• Habitat for Humanity Tucson. Over a period of three years, she helped build a 36-house community in central Tucson. She also photographs house dedications, wall raisings, tree plantings, and other Habitat events.
• International Relief Teams. Martha worked on IRT’s post-Katrina reconstruction teams during 2006-08. IRT’s construction volunteers have helped repair approximately 90 homes along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. In addition to pounding nails, pulling electrical wire, and hanging drywall, she was the team photographer. Her photos have been used in IRT’s notecards and newsletter, and on an IRT home page slideshow.
• Watershed Management Group. Martha has worked on – and photographed –WMG water conservation projects in Tucson.
• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Martha has been part of Tucson’s CERT since 2003. This program trains ordinary citizens in emergency preparedness and basic disaster response skills like fire suppression, first aid, triage, and incident command.