 Burch serves on the boards of the Council of Fashion Designers of America , the Society of Memorial Sloan @-@ Kettering Cancer Center , the Breast Cancer Research Foundation , the Startup America Partnership and the Barnes Foundation . She is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at the Wharton School of Business , and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . She chaired the 2007 spring gala for the American Ballet Theatre . 
