Martha Coven currently wears three professional hats: she is a Visiting Lecturer at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs, the author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the founder of Coven Consulting LLC, a consulting practice serving philanthropic and nonprofit clients.

Earlier in her career, she served as a congressional aide, a nonprofit advocate, and in the Obama White House. She holds a B.A. in economics and a J.D. from Yale University.

Martha is a longtime resident of the District of Columbia, where her children were educated in the public schools.