Natasha is Navajo and Saudi Arabian and was born and raised on the Navajo Nation. She has over twenty years of experience building place-based solutions at the intersection of land protection and strong cultural economies. She has worked closely with Tribes and grassroots tribal leaders to protect land, water, natural, and cultural resources through land protection campaigns, social entrepreneurship initiatives, strengthening tribal governance and nation building efforts, and land management initiatives. She served as the inaugural director of Native American Partnerships for the Catena Foundation, a program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and is a co-founder of Colorado Plateau Foundation. She is the project lead for Workforce Grantmaking in Native Nations and Communities at Workforce Matters.