Membership Director

2025

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Natali is an alumna of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies. There as a first-generation college student, she became a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, joining a longitudinal qualitative study on Youth Programs.

Upon completion, she volunteered at youth centers in Viçosa/Nova Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. Afterwards, Natali started her professional career in Los Angeles, California in direct client care, which led her to program and agency-facing roles in monitoring and evaluation, and data management.

Most recently, she obtained her Master of Science in Applied Data Science and International Studies from Claremont Graduate University, where she expanded her experience from social services to healthcare, while working for Kaiser Permanente. Natali currently serves as the Senior Director of Programs of Training and Data Management at One Hope United here in Illinois.