Allison Yarrow

Change Agent, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Journalist, Parent, Producer, Writer/Editor

ALLISON YARROW is an award-winning journalist and National Magazine Award finalist who has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and many others. She is the author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and The Failed Promise of Gender Equality, published by Harper Perennial in 2018. She was a TED resident and is a grantee of the International Women’s Media Foundation. She produced the VICE documentary Misconception and has appeared on the Today show, MSNBC, NPR, and more. Yarrow was raised in Macon, Georgia, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Women and girls, Journalism, The 90s, maternal health, childbirth, postpartum, women's transition to motherhood

Four million women give birth in America each year, but 95% don't get the healthcare and support they need afterward. Society and healthcare focus on the baby while the woman's recovery from birth and transition into motherhood is overlooked. It doesn't have to be this way.

I'm thrilled to be part TED's Fall 2017 Residency class.

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