Olesia Bida is a journalist for the War Crimes Investigations Unit of The Kyiv Independent, a Ukrainian English-language media outlet. She is the author of documentary investigations about child deportation, sexual violence as a war crime, and the Kakhovka Dam's explosion. 

Until 2023, she was a journalist at hromadske, where she specialised in covering sensitive topics such as gender equality, children's rights, vulnerable population groups, and sexual violence in universities, the Armed Forces, and against minors.

She has won the National Investigative Journalism Competition, the American Investigative Reporters and Editors Competition (IRE), and the Prague Press Play Film Festival. She has also won the Swedish human rights award, the Per Anger Prize.