Mirtha Donastorg

Mirtha Donastorg is a reporter on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s business team focusing on Black wealth, entrepreneurship, and minority-owned businesses as well as innovation at Atlanta’s HBCUs. Most recently she was the HBCU Innovation Editor at The Plug, exploring research, business and tech innovations coming from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Latest from Mirtha Donastorg

Georgia-based parent of Sharpie and Yankee Candle to lay off hundreds

Newell Brands plans to lay off more than 900 global employees and close 20 Yankee Candle stores in the U.S. and Canada.

This metro Atlanta couple spearheaded a change in football helmets

Erin and Lee Hanson are the founders behind Guardian Sports, the company that makes the Guardian Caps worn by college football and NFL players.

Atlanta Mayor Dickens unveils new equity efforts to uplift residents, equity, an Inclusion.

Atlanta officials quietly rebrand city’s DEI office

The city of Atlanta office overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion is getting a rebrand amid assaults at the federal level on such initiatives.

This Atlanta startup helps restaurants accept payments. It just raised $21M.

Sunday, a digital payment platform for restaurants, is looking to expand across the U.S. with its latest funding.

President of Atlanta Fed Raphael Bostic announces retirement

Atlanta Fed President and CEO Raphael Bostic has served in the role since 2017 and is the first Black and openly gay chief executive of a regional Fed bank.

Mass cancellations hit Atlanta airport, shutdown causes uncertainty

‘Fortunately, I made it.’ Shutdown anxiety continues at Atlanta airport.

As a possible legislative solution to the federal shutdown made its way through the Senate on Monday, travelers at the world’s busiest airport faced challenges.

Atlanta among airports where FAA will cut flights due to shutdown

Anxiety abounds during first day of FAA flight cuts at Hartsfield-Jackson

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered airlines to cut traffic across 40 of the nation’s busiest airports starting Friday to maintain safety.

Operation HOPE CEO John Hope Bryant (left) and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens discuss the “American Aspiration Tour” in July. Bryant has joined with CIM Group to “address the immense need for affordable housing … .” (Jenni Girtman for the AJC)

John Hope Bryant and Centennial Yards backer launch huge housing fund

CIM Group and Bryant Group Ventures have formed a partnership to “address the immense need for affordable housing."

Meet the Atlanta founder who took her women’s health tech startup public

Meet the metro Atlanta woman who invented a new permanent birth control

Femasys is the brainchild and labor of love of Kathy Lee-Sepsick, whose company that started in her home in 2004 raised $31 million when it went public in 2021.

Amazon laying off 14,000 corporate workers, but Georgia impact unclear

Amazon has a large footprint in Georgia, with a corporate office in Buckhead and nearly two dozen fulfillment and "sortation" centers across the state.