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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Iris Burnett, is a communication strategist with experience in developing programs of concern to women’s Issues, entertainment, politics, and media.

Burnett was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications Public Affairs and Government Relations for USA Networks and the Syfy Channel. She created the Corporate Communications office and managed all non-profit efforts, public affairs -- both domestic and international, media relations, and government affairs. Among her other achievements, she designed, and implemented “Erase the Hate”, an award-winning national campaign to promote understanding and respect for individual differences. Erase the Hate is now an independent non-profit organization.

Before joining USA Networks, Burnett served as Chief of Staff at the State Department for Public Affairs, and dealt, the Cabinet, the Congress, the non-profit sector and other government agencies.

Burnett helped to create the White House Women’s Office and the President’s Interagency Council for Women. In addition, she served as both an official delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and an official delegate to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, where she directed communications for the delegation, including the congressional delegation and the White House. After leaving USIA, Burnett co-founded and was the Chairman of the Board of Count-Me-In for Women’s Economic Independence, a non-profit organization which is the first online micro-lending organization in the world.

Burnett, who has been selected for the prestigious “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who of American Women” serves on the Board of Directors of the Erase the Hate Foundation, on the National Advisory Board of Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence and has had a Presidential appointment to the Board of Governors of the United Services Organization (USO).

She was selected for the prestigious international Bretton Woods Committee and is a Truman Fellow. She is the executive producer of the award-winning documentary, “The Gefilte Fish Chronicles” a documentary and “Gefilte Fish Chronicles, the Musical”, and the companion cookbook.

She wrote "Schlepper, a mostly true take of Presidential Politics"', “So You Think You Can Be President,” and "So You Think You Can Be President, Who Doesn’t?" which is an award winning, humorous, political nonfiction publication.

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