About US
Staff:
Director: Kate
Martin
Kate Martin has been
Director of the Center for National Security Studies, a non-profit human rights and civil liberties organization
located in Washington,
D.C, since 1992. Previously, she served
as litigation director for the Center when it was a joint project of the ACLU and the Fund for Peace. From 1993 to 1999, Ms. Martin was also
co-director of a project on Security
Services in a Constitutional Democracy in 12 former communist countries in Europe.
Ms. Martin has taught
Strategic Intelligence and Public Policy at Georgetown University
Law School
and also served as general counsel to the National Security Archive, a research
library located at George
Washington University
from 1995 to 2001.
She has testified
frequently before the United States Congress, including the House and Senate
Intelligence Committees. She has also
litigated cases involving the entire range of national security and civil
liberties issues, including serving as lead counsel in the lawsuit brought by
more than 20 organizations challenging the secret arrests of 1200 people in the
wake of September 11. She participated
in the drafting of the Johannesburg Principles on National Security and Freedom
of Expression.
Among her
publications are: ‘Enemy Combatants,’ the Constitution and the Administration’s
‘War on Terror’ with Joseph Onek,
American Constitution Society, August
2004; Domestic Intelligence and Civil
Liberties, SAIS
Review of International Affairs, (Winter-Spring 2004);
Secret Arrests and Preventive Detention, in Lost Liberties, ed. Brown
(New Press 2003); Intelligence, Terrorism and Civil Liberties, Human Rights,
(Winter 2002); Civil Liberties and National Security on the Internet, in The
Information Age Anthology, vol. II:
National Security Implications of the Information Age (CCRP 2000); with Paul Hoffman Safeguarding Liberty: National Security,
Freedom of Expression and Access to
Information: United States of America,
in Secrecy and Liberty, ed. Coliver et al. (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
1999); and Preventive Detention of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the United
States since September 11th,
Refuge, (Centre for Refugee Studies 2002).
Previously
Ms Martin was a partner with the Washington,
D.C. law firm of Nussbaum, Owen
& Webster. She graduated from the
University of Virginia Law School in 1977, where she
was a member of the Law Review, and from Pomona College
in 1973 with a B.A. in Philosophy.
Staff Counsel: Molly Burgdorf
Molly Burgdorf is Staff Counsel at CNSS. She
is an attorney with a background as a writer, editor, and educator. Before joining our team, Ms. Burgdorf was a
congressional legislative consultant for the National Council on Disability, an
independent federal agency, where she worked on a range of issues that impact
people with disabilities, including civil rights, emergency planning and preparedness,
and health care. In this role, she
shared information and advice regarding legislative proposals with
congressional staff and drafted testimony for hearings before Congress.
Ms.
Burgdorf has conducted policy analysis and legal research on a range of issues
affecting the rights and lives of individuals.
She has also provided legal assistance to clients including victims of
domestic violence and low-income tenants.
A graduate of the law school at the University
of California, Davis,
and a member of the Washington State Bar, Ms. Burgdorf relocated to the Washington D.C.
area in 2006, to work on national legislative and policy advocacy.
NSAF, Inc. Board of Directors*:
Chair: Russell Hemenway
Mr. Rusell Hemenway is National Director
of the National Committee for an Effective Congress; Trustee of The Fund for
Peace Inc,; and Chair of the Fund for Constitutional Government.
Secretary: Edgar N. James, Esq.
Mr. Edgar
N. James, Esq. is partner at James & Hoffman and a pro bono litigator on
behalf of the Archive.
Treasurer: Nancy Kranich
Ms. Nancy Kranich is the former Associate Dean of Libraries of New
York University and the former President of the American Library Association.
Dr. Anne Cahn,
Ph.D.
Dr. Anne
Cahn, Ph.D. is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States
Institute of Peace, the former Director of the Committee on National Security,
and a former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Department of Defense
staffer. She is also the author of Killing Détente.
Sheila Coronel
Ms. Sheila Coronel is Director of the Stabile
Center for Investigative Journalism at
Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Journalism and the former Director of the Philippine Center for Investigative
Journalism.
Herbert N. Foerstel
Mr. Herbert
N. Foerstel is a retired University of Maryland
librarian and author of Secret Science
and Surveillance in the Stacks. He is currently a member of the American
Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee.
Gen. William Y.
Smith, Ph.D.
Gen.
William Y. Smith, Ph.D. is retired from the US Air Force and is the former
President of the Institute for Defense Analyses. He is also the former Deputy
Commander of NATO and co-author of Operation
Anadyr.
President: Thomas S. Blanton
Mr. Thomas
S. Blanton is currently Director of the National Security Archive.
* The Center for
National Security Studies is a project of the National Security Archive Fund,
Inc.
Contact Us:
1730 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC
20006
Phone 202.721.5650
Fax 202-530-0128
cnss@cnss.org