Angela Garbes


Angela Garbes is a journalist and the author of Like a Mother, a narrative nonfiction book exploring the emerging science and cultural myths of pregnancy and motherhood, as well as a community advocate for reproductive justice, working families, and equity and inclusion. Like a Mother was an NPR Best Book of the Year and finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Nonfiction. Her writing on care work and parenting has appeared in The New York Times, The Cut, New York, and featured on NPR’s Fresh Air. She also cohosts The Double Shift, an acclaimed independent podcast challenging the status quo of motherhood in America. She grew up in a food-obsessed, immigrant Filipino household and currently lives with her family in Seattle.
  • Superpower: Translating data and big ideas into language anyone can understand.
  • Kryptonite: Homemade sinigang.
  • Known on the streets for: Karaoke and high kicks.
  • When not at work: I am doing my primary job of mothering two kids and jumping in as many bodies of water as I can.
  • I identify as: Filipina; proud child of immigrants; first gen Fil Am; Pinay; writer; mover and shaker; a really good hang; loyal partner, friend, and mother.
  • I dedicate my work at the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom to…: My parents, who spent their entire careers in health care, dedicated and compassionate workers in a system that has never valued or seen them fully.