Natalie joined the Foundation in 2019. She brings over twelve years of C-suite administrative and office management experience, having previously worked as an Executive Assistant in Architecture at the offices of Hodgetts + Fung and Johnson Fain. Prior to that, she worked as a program coordinator at Project GEAR UP at Garfield School and as a program director for an art program that taught drawing, watercolor and oil painting in Los Angeles County public schools. A native to Southern California, Natalie received her B.A. from Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges, which included a semester of cultural immersion in Nepal. Natalie is an exhibiting painter and member of the Arroyo Arts Collective.