Mila Astorga-Garcia is a journalist, editor, researcher, and author.  She is Managing Editor of𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟, a community newspaper published in Toronto, Canada. Aside from newspapers, her writings are published in academic journals and monographs, literary anthologies and books. Also, an activist journalist, she was detained twice—before and during martial law.