Angela Garbes is the author of the national bestseller Essential Labor, called “a landmark and a lightning storm” by the New Yorker. Her TED Talk “What Working Parents Really Need From Workplaces" has been viewed over two million times. Her first book, Like a Mother, was an NPR Best Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, New York, Bon Appétit, and featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and NPR’s Fresh Air.