Dr. Diane B. Kunz,  Esq.  is a historian and lawyer and founding Director of the Center for Adoption Policy, which became the pre-eminent legal and policy institute engaged in adoption and family creation issues.  It was honored in 2008 by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute as an Angel in Adoption. She  is completing a two volume transnational history of international adoption and abduction, which is under contract with UNC Press.