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.