A'Lelia Bundles is a former network television executive and producer, who enjoyed a thirty-year career with ABC News and NBC News. She is chairman of the board of the Foundation for the National Archives, a vice chairman of Columbia University's board of trustees, a member of the advisory boards of the Indiana Historical Society's publication committee and of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Madam C. J. Walker and lives in Washington, D. C.