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Selenne Martinez Jimenez aka Selly (born as Selene Martinez-Jimenez on July 19, 1986 in Baja California, Mexico) is a Mexican deaf girl and deaf life-personality. She is best known for her school for the deaf program in Downey High School. She was a president senior and on a soccer team with mainstreaming school and AYSO for two years.

 Biography  Martinez was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and lived there for only four years. She has an older sister named Joana Lizeth "JO" Garcia-Martinez. Selly is the last child. She moved to Los Angeles at age 5 and grew up in the Lynwood in Southern California. She credits the prominent Latino culture of Los Angeles as being a major influence in her Mexican deaf pride and style. She graduated at Downey High School in 2004 when she was only 17 and decided to attend Cerritos College by her mother, Norma. She didn't want to attend there, but she continued attending there for 3 years and she is now attending to El Camino College. She loves there because there is a good program for the deaf and found her identify as a Mexican deaf girl.