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Olga Grigoryants
Reporter
Olga Grigoryants is a multimedia reporter with the Los Angeles Daily News. She covers business, environment and urban development. She also supports the paper in its watchdog role to hold San Fernando Valley power players accountable and loves digging for public records. She speaks Russian and after studying writing in Moscow, she moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and has called it home ever since. She earned her master’s degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and has published articles with Reuters, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Business Journal. Along the way, she picked up awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists and Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Articles
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For series on home births, a reporter recounts how she overcame a key challenge: "I felt I was missing the voices of people I was writing about, the women who opted for home birth."
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UCLA study answers some of the questions expectant mothers have had since early in the pandemic, when so much was unknown.
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More women have been opting for home birth as hospitals postponed or moved most of their health care online due to COVID-19.
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"There are systems in place in California that make it almost impossible to have a birth center. It’s like a never-ending cycle," said one midwife.
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About 2% of the country’s 15,000 licensed midwives are Black. In Southern California, there are about 120 licensed midwives, but only seven of them are Black.
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Many of LA County’s programs focus on addressing the consequences of intergenerational racism on the health of Black women.
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In interviews with midwives and doulas, they say more of their clients are struggling with isolation, limited access to health care, fear of exposure to the virus at hospitals.