Natasha Winegar (she/her/hers) is a researcher, writer, narrative strategist, organizer, mama, and coach. She joined Change Elemental in 2013 after a decade of organizing and program development with power-building organizations. As a CoWeaver, Natasha is a member of our three-person leadership team, partnering with Natalie Bamdad and Delia Allen-O’Brien to hold the whole of Change Elemental’s human, financial, and mission sustainability. In addition, Natasha leads our learning, communications, and narrative change strategies and collaborates on our consulting engagements and the Prefiguring Futures Lab, bringing a blend of curiosity, strategic insight, creativity, and rigor.
As our narrative strategies lead, Natasha directs Change Elemental’s communications, developing and co-creating strategy and content to meet and advance the moment, supporting a big we to embody vision and liberatory practice. She co-authored” Influencing Complex Systems Change” in the Nonprofit Quarterly and the “Systems Grantmaking Resource Guide.” She collaborates as a content editor on our blog and other resources and publications.
In consulting engagements, Natasha designs and implements learning and evaluation projects that center the elements of transformative change. Natasha has experience with strategy, research, human growth and sustainability systems, and programs. Previous clients include Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE), the Gates Foundation, and Houston BIPOC Arts Network and Funds (BANF).
As a coach, Natasha supports people in creating values-aligned change. She partners with people to explore how systems of oppression impact their beliefs, actions, and connections, drawing in part on her own ongoing racial equity journey as a cis-gendered white woman. She invites people to connect to themselves, their purpose, and what moves them towards showing up in the ways they long to.
Before joining Change Elemental, Natasha worked with SEIU, UNITE HERE, Workers United, and the Tenants & Neighbors Coalition. Natasha is a certified coach through Leadership That Works and received a Master’s in Nonprofit Management and a Post-Master’s Certificate in Organizational Development from The New School. Natasha also has a B.A. in Anthropology from Macalester College. When not at Change Elemental, Natasha can be found in the pool (bringing some water to her earth sign), reading YA fantasy and mysteries, savoring the crunch of dried maple leaves in the fall and the sweetness of ripe tomatoes in the summer, connecting with ancestors, and heeding the liberating call of her descendants. She lives in Boston with her husband, Otoniel, and their two kids.