Thaler Pekar applies research in cognitive linguistics, brain imaging, and persuasive communications to the development of values-based, emotionally resonant narratives for organizations and their leaders. She helps leaders identify and articulate their inherent capacity to shift discourse and move people to action. This has been invaluable to her work in advocacy communications, for which she has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. as well as to Malaysia, Japan, Ghana, Spain, Egypt, Senegal and Thailand.

Thaler has and continues to be a guest lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate Program in Strategic Communications, New York University Graduate Program in Health Policy, and the School of Continuing Education Management and Leadership certificate program; and The New School University Graduate Program in Media Studies and Communications.

She initiated a large communications project for the Ford Foundation on religion and culture, and has trained hundreds of activists, legislators and lobbyists on how to reframe the discussion of low-wage work in America. Thaler's extensive work in women's, children's and reproductive rights advocacy includes consulting for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the League of Women's Voters, Save the Children, the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Medical Students for Choice, the United Nations Population Fund, and Center for Reproductive Rights. She also works with organizations interested in education reform, including Communities for Learning, and New York State's Time Out From Testing.

Thaler's knowledge of social justice and human rights includes consulting work for International Rescue Committee, PolicyLink, Center for Policy Alternatives, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, NAACP LDF, Media Democracy Fund and training the Ford Foundation’s Peace and Social Justice Program officers in messaging and media skills.

Her communications work with progressive religious organizations includes the Episcopal Church of America, The Interfaith Alliance, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Union Theological Seminary and Catholics for Free Choice. She has provided communications skills coaching for academics from Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, Emory, Drew, Duke and Rice Universities.

Thaler served as Communications Director for The Children’s Health Fund, where she significantly increased the organization’s national press exposure. During the height of both the crack and domestic AIDS epidemics, Thaler was the Public Affairs Director for Horizon Health Center, a large, inner city Federally Qualified Community Health Center. In addition to advocating on behalf of the organization’s health and social services, she effectively used media to respond to the public issues surrounding their abortion clinic and corresponding reproductive rights litigation (including Rust v. Sullivan and clinic access cases).

Thaler is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting and an Inaugural Member of the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers. She has served as State Organizer for the National Abortion Rights Action League-NJ.  Thaler is a Founding Member of the American College of Women’s Health Physicians, having organized medical students nationwide on behalf of a comprehensive medical specialty in women’s health, and the Hudson County Reproductive Rights Network.  She is a long-time resident of Hoboken, and a founding board member of Mile Square Theatre.