Martha Dye is a Washington D.C. attorney specializing in foreign assistance law and public international law.  Ms. Dye has extensively studied and worked in Morocco on issues relating to women's rights.  Ms. Dye began her lifelong connection with Morocco in college as a anthropology student on a study abroad program in Agadir.  She later returned to Morocco as a Fulbright Fellow for a year, during which she became fluent in Moroccan Arabic and wrote a thesis on women working in the fruit and vegetable packing houses of the Souss region.  After subsequently attending law school at the University of Michigan, Ms. Dye pursued a federal clerkship and then a 10-year legal career handling complex litigation and arbitrations with a major international law firm.  Ms. Dye next returned to Morocco and the international development field, working in Rabat with the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative to train women lawyers and judges on the 2004 amendments to the Moudawana.  Returning to the United States in 2006, Ms. Dye gained further international development and international law experience as Senior Policy Director at Transparency International USA, Attorney-Adviser at the Department of State, and now as Attorney-Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development.