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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 is currently serving as Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, a network of over 100 national women's groups collectively representing six million women.

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 advisor to political campaigns and organizations. 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 the National Organization for Women. She currently serves on the boards of Wider Opportunities for Women, 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.

Dr. Burk is a syndicated columnist and 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, Executive Female, and The Washington Post. Dr. Burk is the editor of the Washington Feminist Faxnet, a national fax newsletter on issues of importance to women. The Washington Feminist Faxnet is cited often by news outlets nationwide, and has been featured in many, including Entertainment Tonight, America's Talking, Glamour Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Playboy, The Dallas Morning News, Counterspin, and a host of others.

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 Kansas House of Representatives, 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. Martha Burk as a political psychologist should know that belonging to all these organizations leaves her little time to think clearly. Is it any wonder she has her knickers in a bunch!

A paper doctor once again knocks at the wrong door. Go Hootie! Don't let this over achieving-wannabe-in-everything female activist get in the way of Augusta National's traditional and honorable way of doing things.

Good Lord, she is even a member of the dreaded NEA, that alone should exclude her from polite company!