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INTRODUCING...  Martha Burk Dr. Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's equity expert who is co-founder and President of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, a research and policy analysis organization in Washington, D.C. Dr. Burk also served as Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO), a network of nearly 200 national women's groups collectively representing ten million women. She is currently the Money Editor for Ms. Magazine, "more than a Magazine-A Movement." In 2003, Dr. Burk was named one of the “Women of the Year” by Ms. Magazine. For the past year, Dr. Burk has led the NCWO effort to open the Augusta National Golf Club to women, and remains at the forefront of the debate. In addition to appearances on many sports shows, including HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, ESPN Outside the Lines, Listen Up! With Charles Barkley and others, she has appeared on a great number of news shows, including The Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsnight with Aaron Brown, Lou Dobbs Moneyline, CNN Financial, Bloomberg News, Wolf Blitzer Reports, CBS This Morning, Brian Williams Show, American Morning with Paula Zahn, UpClose, Crossfire, Fox Morning News, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, News with Connie Chung, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and many more. Appearances on talk radio around the country, both sports and news shows, numbered in the hundreds. Print coverage of Dr. Burk’s work has been extensive, with multiple articles in every major and many minor newspapers and magazines throughout the year, including extensive coverage in The New York Times. Profiles, some with front page coverage, have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Dallas Morning News, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Sports Illustrated, People Magazine, The New Yorker, and a number of others. Dr. Burk is a syndicated columnist and has appeared as a regular guest on the PBS public affairs program Debates, Debates. She also appears regularly on national and international radio and television, and is a frequent contributor to major newspapers and print outlets on public policy, including USA Today, The Nation, Knight-Ridder wire services, Scripps Howard news services, Louisville Courier Journal, Los Angeles Daily News, Ms. Magazine, Working Woman, Business Woman, Executive Female, and The Washington Post. She is an editorial advisor for Ms. Magazine. Dr. Burk has long been active in public debate and political analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her background includes experience as a university research director, management professor, and trainer for NGOs in several countries. Dr. Burk has served on the Commission for Responsive Democracy, the Advisory Committee of Americans for Workplace Fairness, the Sex Equity Caucus of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and the board of directors of Wider Opportunities for Women. She currently serves on the boards of the United States Committee for UNIFEM, and chairs the Legislative Task Force for the National Committee on Pay Equity. She serves as an advisory board member to several other national organizations, including A World of Women for World Peace, a project of the Twenty First Century Foundation. Dr. Burk has conducted training workshops with women's NGOs internationally in Macedonia and Kuwait, under the sponsorship of USAID, and has conducted training in the U.S. for delegations from Russia, Botswana, Korea, Romania, and Bulgaria, and the Middle East. She has recently been a member of official U.S. Delegations to international conferences in Iceland, Lithuania, and Estonia. Institutional consulting clients have included the the University of Texas, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, Women's International News Gathering Service, National Education Association, Search for Common Ground, the United States Information Agency, and the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Burk's book, Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It, was published by Scribner in April, 2005. Honorarium Range: $5,000 to $10,000
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