Rooted in Healing, Transformative, and Disability Justice lineages, Nat weaves play, embodiment, political education, and spiritual storytelling into experiential teach-ins for families, activists, and care providers raising and loving young children. 

Nat believes that when parents and providers alike heal our inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, we put fragmented pieces of ourselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with our whole selves. Then, we can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that's rooted in liberation for our future generations. Her decolonized pediatric and family mental health approach received a Congressional Commendation read into the Congressional Record by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, was featured in Chicago’s WGN9, and was awarded the Zero to Three Award for Emerging Leadership and the 2024-2026 Zero to Three Fellowship. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal and an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them.

Nat is a graduate of the Erikson Institute’s Social Work Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and healing support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). To embody joy in radical art making, Nat has performed and headlined premier burlesque shows across the USA and in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Canada.