About Nat

I’m a multi passionate, queer & trans, spiritual, life-loving person. I love decorating my home and experiencing the finer things in life. I love nature and am infinitely passionate about my friends.

I believe that white dominant culture has isolated us into lives where we feel constantly stretched for time, pressured to climb ladders of success that we don’t care about, and way too focused on other people’s opinions along the way.

I’m here to change that. Let’s usher in a world of people who move at their own pace, are radically committed to their choices, and know that what’s best for them is best for the world.

My professional experiences have always centered around people.

I am a certified equity-informed mediator through Resolutions Northwest, and I hold Oregon’s trauma-informed care certification.

My BA is in public health and I have a minor in communications. I have always been passionate about helping people create better lives. This work extended to the myriad of student leadership positions I held on my campus, including managing multiple student health spaces.

Since college I have been working as a K-12 substitute teacher in Portland, Oregon. Teaching and mentoring children is a life-long passion of mine, and many of my coaching skills have been honed by working with students in the classroom.

I also spent 2 years volunteering as a support groups facilitator for trans elementary and middle school students across the US.

Personal influences for my work include:

• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

• Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarsinha

• Afrofuturism

• Black & Indigenous liberationists

• Rest is Resistance by Trisha Hersey

• Healing Resistance by Kazu Haga

• The work of Sighswoon (Gabi Abrāo)

• The work of Pea the Feary