Angela Bonavoglia is an author and award-winning journalist who focuses on women's issues, particularly health, religious and social issues. Her feature articles, investigative reports, op-eds, personal essays, and profiles have appeared in such outlets as Ms. (longtime contributing editor), the NY Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Salon.com, Redbook, Mirabella, Cosmopolitan, Newsday, The New York Times, and the National Catholic Reporter. She blogs at the Huffington Post, Ms., and the Women's Media Center online.

Her article, "The Church’s Tug of War," about women as an invisible force for reform in the Roman Catholic Church, was a lead article in The Nation in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandals that broke in the US in 2002. It provided a fresh analysis of the role of women in the progressive Church reform movement at an unprecedented moment in American Church history and became the basis for her most recent book, Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church(Harper-Collins).

That analysis is as vital and pertinent today--as another wave of horrific revelations of priest sex abuse and cover-up washes over the land--as it was then, as witnessed by the many replies to Bonavoglia's Huffington Post reminder that this crisis has never been only about the abuse of girls; Newsweek's publication of her response to their cover story "What Would Mary Do?"; and Harper Collins' upcoming release of the e-book version of Good Catholic Girls.

Since the book was published, Bonavoglia has spoken to hundreds of people around the country about women and Catholic Church reform. She has also been a guest on more than 60 television and radio shows in the U.S. and Canada, including shows carried by various NPR affiliates, the Laura Flanders Show, and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now.

Bonavoglia also authored The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion, an oral history spanning seven decades, from the 1920s through the 1980s. With a foreword by Gloria Steinem, it features Bonavoglia’s interviews with such public personalities as Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Grace Paley, Rita Moreno, and Jill Clayburgh, as well as with activists, clerics and medical providers about their experiences with illegal and legal abortion(Random House, Seal Press)

The Choices We Made was featured on "Oprah" and NPR’s "Lenny Lopate Show." Excerpts appeared in Cosmopolitan and Ms., and the book was discussed in the New York Times (Anna Quindlen's column), Newsday, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Mirabella, and Mother Jones.

Bonavoglia is a past recipient of an Exceptional Merit Media Award (sponsored by Radcliffe College and the National Women's Political Caucus) for magazine health reporting. Her articles have been reprinted in book collections--most recently, her Nation article on Catholic women reformers in Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror (Thunder's Mouth Press/​Nation Books).

Bonavoglia is also a communications and development consultant who has worked for leading foundations, public agencies, and nonprofit institutions, including, currently, Indpenendence Care System, a pioneering disability rights organization. She has conducted research and written reports for, among others, the Ford Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Coalition of 100 Black Women, the New York Community Trust, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Women and Philanthropy, and the New York City Health Department. She holds an MSW from New York University.