In Essential Labor, Angela Garbes builds on the ideas she presented in her viral essay, “The Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story,” exploring our assumptions about care, deservedness, and equity. Care and Leading is a deep dive into what mothering in America is, and can be, amidst all the fear and possibility of the moment. Using her family’s journey as care workers from the Philippines as a lens, she places mothering in a global context of care—the invisible economic engine that has been historically devalued and demanded of women of color.