JOHN SORENSEN is the Executive Director of the Abbott Sisters Project and the co-editor of “The Grace Abbott Reader” (2008) for the University of Nebraska Press. He has organized major Abbott events for the New York Public Library, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Public Radio, etc. THE ABBOTT SISTERS PROJECT is a not-for-profit operation (active since 1992) established to raise public awareness of the life and work of Grace and Edith Abbott, and to educate Americans concerning the history of the children’s rights movement. johnsorensen10012@yahoo.com