New Mexico in Focus; Focus on Women's Issues and Martha Burk

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · March 13, 2009

March is Women's History month, and New Mexico in Focus is celebrating all things female, by sitting down with prolific feminist rights advocate Martha Burk. Burk made headlines by challenging the male-only membership policies at the infamous Augusta National Golf Club, and she is continuing her advocacy work here in New Mexico as Governor Richardson's senior advisor on women's issues. Also ahead this week, the battle over TIDDs heats up, on the airwaves and in the Roundhouse, Rush Limbaugh gets conservatives and liberals all fired up, and the president paves the way for new stem cell research here in New Mexico. Hosts: Gene Grant, Freelance Journalist, Variety Magazine and David Alire Garcia, Managing Editor, NMIndependent.com Panelists: Jim Scarantino, Albuquerque Journal Columnist; Whitney Cheshire, Political Consultant; Teresa Cordova, Professor, UNM School of Architecture & Planning. Guest Panelists: Emily Esterson, Author & Writing Coach. Guests: Martha Burk, Senior Advisor on Women's Issues; Delilah Montoya, Artist & Curator; Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director, 516 Arts.