Florence Kelley, 1890's Reformer and Her Friends
Leigh Bienen |
TEDxNaperville
• November 2019
Leigh B. Bienen is a senior lecturer at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, an author, a researcher, and a criminal defense attorney whose areas of expertise include capital punishment, sex crimes, and rape reform legislation. A graduate of Cornell University, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Rutgers-Newark School of Law, she has worked as a journalist and an editor and published fiction and essays in TriQuarterly, The Ontario Review, Transition, and The O’Henry Prize Stories. In December 2008, she launched a book and website about the first female factory inspector in the United States, The Life and Times of Florence Kelley in Chicago, 1890-1899, [florencekelley.northwestern.edu] which serves as a repository for 35,000 legal and historical records and photographs. Bienen was a member of the Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee and the Director of the Chicago Historical Homicide Project.