Martha J. Fleischman is President and owner of Kennedy Galleries, Inc., a private dealer in American art of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. She is publisher of The American Art Journal (1997-2005) a scholarly, non-commercial publication on historical American painting, sculpture and decorative arts. Martha was a past board member of The Art Dealers Association of America. She currently serves on the Board of New York Public Radio, and was the Co-chair of the WQXR Campaign, which acquired the radio station for WNYC from the New York Times in 2009. She is also a Trustee for the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, a Board member for Democracy Now! and is on the Advisory Board of the New York Festival of Song.