Angela Bonavoglia

Angela Bonavoglia is an author and journalist as well as a communications and development professional who has worked for leading foundations and nonprofit institutions, with a specialization in women’s issues and reproductive rights.

Angela’s articles, investigative reports, op-­‐eds, personal essays, and profiles have appeared in such outlets as Ms. (longtime contributing editor), the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Salon, Redbook, Newsday, Religion Dispatches, National Catholic Reporter, Women’s Media Center, Women and Hollywood, RH Reality Check, and Huffington Post.

Angela’s first book, The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion, became a classic oral history. With a forward by Gloria Steinem, the book spans seven decades and features her interviews with celebrities  (e.g., Whoopi Goldberg, Rita Moreno, Jill Clayburgh, Kathy Najimy), writers (e.g., Grace Paley), and activists, clerics and medical providers about their experiences with abortion from the 1920s through the 1980s.  Most recently, Angela authored Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church, described as “an impassioned call for answers to some of the most pressing questions facing  the Catholic Church today.”

As a nonprofit professional, Angela has served as development director at the Ms. Foundation for Women and Planned Parenthood of Nassau County; associate director of development at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan; and most recently, director of communications and development at Independence Care System, an agency that supports people with disabilities to live at home, where she raised funds to create and implement a model program to increase access to women’s health services in NYC for women with physical disabilities.

Angela has conducted research and written reports for, among others, the Planned Parenthood Federation of American, the Ford Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Coalition of 100 Black Women, Women and Philanthropy, the International Women’s Health Coalition, the International Trachoma Initiative, and the New York City Health Department. She holds an MSW from New York University.