Natalia joined the JUFJ team as a Montgomery County Community Organizer in September 2024. Prior to JUFJ, she served as an Avodah Corps Member, where she worked with unhoused folks as a Street Outreach Worker in DC’s Ward 6.

Natalia first became engaged with organizing as an intern with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network where she worked to pass historic state-wide climate bills in Maryland, and as a strategy partner for Adamah’s Jewish Youth Climate Movement. Natalia holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology from Brandeis University. While living in Boston, she was deeply involved in the re-entry and decarceration community, and spent a year and a half working as a re-entry program facilitator for Brandeis’s Partakers Empowerment Program. She credits the relationships she built with her formerly-incarcerated students with solidifying her passion for working towards racial and economic justice.

When not at work, you can find Natalia reading in Rock Creek Park, escaping to Shenandoah for weekend camping trips, and hosting friends for Shabbat dinner in her apartment.

Natalia uses she/her/hers pronouns.