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Oxana Ostrovskaya

Oxana Ostrovskaya

Educator and co-founder of Luminary Learning Village, and co-creator of "Directed in Advance" medical advocacy initiative with Laura Echegaray.

Sep 11, 2026

6:05
And that's why we're so focused on giving people the tools so they have a better experience and end up having better outcomes.
6:18
Yes, and we, so Laura and I, we met in 2021 when here in the Bay Area, in the East Bay, our community called Luminary Village was coming together.
6:31
And back at that time, we were all advocating for health freedom and for freedom of choice when it comes to vaccination specifically.
6:45
Little that we knew that uh, both her and I was going to go through this experience of hospitalization where I was an advocate and she was the patient.
6:56
And, um, I'll tell a little bit about my story, uh, because I believe it's important to know how to act, not only if you're the patient, but also if you, if your loved one gets in the hospital and, um, So what happened in my case is that my partner, he got sick in December 2021.
7:20
And actually right now we kind of celebrate his second birthday essentially during December and January.
7:27
Because when he got sick, we didn't want to go to the hospital.

15 MINS LATER

22:52
So what do you have to add to that, Oksana?

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