In early 2006, Ms. Bundles became a fulltime author and professional speaker after enjoying a 30-year career as an executive and producer in network television news. From 2000 to 2006 she was director of talent development for ABC News in Washington, D.C. and New York.

She was deputy bureau chief of ABC News in Washington from 1996 to 1999, after twenty years as a network television producer with ABC and NBC News. From 1989 until 1996 she was a producer with ABC’s “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.” While at NBC News from 1976 to 1989 in New York, Washington, Atlanta and Houston, her assignments for “Nightly News,” “Today” and several primetime specials and magazine broadcasts included Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign, the 1984 Democratic Convention, the Atlanta youth murders and several hurricanes.

Ms. Bundles’s speeches about Madam Walker, media and journalism have been well-received across the country by audiences at conferences, libraries and educational institutions including Harvard University, the National Archives, the Center on Philanthropy at IUPUI, Spelman College, the U. S. Postal Service, Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress and several book festivals. She has appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” NBC’s “Today,” CBS’s “Sunday Morning,” NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “Fresh Air,” C-Span Book TV’s “Public Lives,” WNET/13’s “A Walk Through Harlem” and other national programs. Her articles have been published in the New York Times Book Review, O (The Oprah Magazine), Parade, Essence, Fortune Small Business, Black Issues Book Review, the Radcliffe Quarterly, several other magazines and on her website at madamcjwalker.com.

She is a trustee of Columbia University and a member of the board of the Madam Walker Theatre Center of Indianapolis, the board of the Foundation for the National Archives and the Dean’s Council of the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study at Harvard.

She has served as president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, a Radcliffe College trustee, a Radcliffe Quarterly advisory board member, a member of the Board of Governors of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, a Harvard Alumni Association director, a member of the Harvard Alumni Association Nominating Committee for Overseers and Directors, a Harvard Club of Washington director, a National Women’s Hall of Fame board member, co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists Authors Showcase and chair of the Association of Black Women Historians Letitia Wood Brown Book and Article Prize Committee. She has been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Writers Week.

Among Ms. Bundles’s journalism awards are a du Pont Gold Baton and an Emmy. She has been inducted into the Black Memorabilia Hall of Fame and the North Central High School Hall of Fame. She is a recipient of a 2002 Harvard Alumni Association Award for outstanding service through alumni activities, a 2004 Radcliffe Distinguished Service Award and a 2007 Columbia University Alumni Medalist.

In 2003, she created the 100 Books, 100 Women campaign to expand the library at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in New York. As well, she spearheaded the national campaign that led to the 1998 U. S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage stamp of Madam Walker.

Ms. Bundles graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and Radcliffe College, received a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an honorary doctorate from Indiana University. She is a member of the Alpha Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard College.

Current speaking topics include:

1) Madam C. J. Walker and the Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success for Today's Women

2) Women and Philanthropy

3) Women and Wealth

4) Generational Wealth and Fiscally Healthy Children

5) A'Lelia Walker: Joy Goddess of the Harlem Renaissance