Tanya Melich is a nationally recognized authority on women in politics. She was a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus and led the fledgling National Women’s Education Fund, the first organization to educate women systematically on how to gain political power. Melich lectures extensively on college campuses and at domestic and international forums. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Republican War Against Women: An Insider’s Report from Behind the Lines (Bantam, l996; paperback, l998). Formerly a Republican who served on the political staffs of Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Charles Goodell and John Lindsay, she is now a Jeffords independent. She was a senior advisor on centrist women voters for the 2004 Kerry for President campaign.

Her op-eds have appeared in major national newspapers and magazines, and she has been a commentator on NY1. She was a public policy analyst for CBS corporate management, national election research director for ABC News and a fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.