Mary Ann Sorrentino has been writing commentaries for newspapers across the country for more than a quarter of a century. She has been a syndicated columnist and continues to write for the Providence Journal on a regular schedule, as well as for other national newspapers on a freelance basis including the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, and others. A graduate of Elmira College and the University of Florence, Italy, she has also lectured widely on campuses including the Harvard School of Public Health, University of Bologna, Italy School of Medicine, Boston College, Northeastern University, University of Wisconsin, and many more. She is the author of the book Abortion, the A Word (Gadd Books) available on amazon.com and other websites as well as in bookstores. She contributed a chapter on outpatient female sterilization for the University of Bologna book Sterilizzazione Maschile e Femminile. Finally, she has been interviewed on TODAY, CNN, Donahue, and numerous national and local TV stations. Articles on her life and work have appeared in the NY Times, TIME magazine, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, and dozens of major national newspapers. She was also featured in the Emmy Award–winning documentary “Taking On the Kennedys” (by Josh Seftel). She was a regular contributor to Yahoo Voices for three years until its closing in 2014. Sorrentino writes on a wide range of topics including social issues, health matters, travel, women’s concerns, and global as well as domestic political discussions. She is also a lecturer on the Lifelong Learning faculty of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Her blogs appear on maryannsorrentino.blogspot.com.