Karin Wells is a journalist, lawyer and much acclaimed author of When Women Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada released only weeks ago. Her previous books are The Abortion Caravan short listed for the Shaughnessy Cohen award for political writing and winner of the Alison Prentice Award for women’s history and More than a Footnote: Canadian Women You Should Know. She has been recognized as one of this country’s leading radio journalists. Over her career she worked in more than fifty countries for CBC Radio making radio documentaries about subjects as diverse as post conflict resolution in Sierra Leone; dementia treatment in Denmark and opera in the English countryside. Karin Wells is also a 3-time winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists documentary award for investigative journalism. Her work regularly won international awards and has been recognized by the United Nations. In 2011 she was inducted into the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honor Society.