 She was inducted into Harvard's Alpha Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.Bundles received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976.She was a producer and executive with ABC News, serving as director of talent development in Washington, DC and New York; as deputy bureau chief in Washington, DC; as a producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings; and as chair of a diversity council advising ABC News president David Westin.