Director

Natalia Latif

In her role, Natalia brings 10 years of legislative and political communications experience, utilizing strategic thinking, campaign communications, and earned media to push for social and political change.

Meet Natalia

Natalia comes to New Heights as a Director with almost 10 years of legislative and political communications experience, utilizing strategic thinking, campaign communications, and earned media to push for social and political change. Most recently, Natalia has been serving as the Communications Director for the Uncommitted National Movement. Previously, she worked as a Senior Associate at Fireside Campaigns, where she was the primary lead on a range of clients whose goals were to build power for marginalized communities.

Natalia Latif, Director

Natalia also taught narrative communications strategy and campaign writing at the Movement School, an affiliate of Justice Democrats. Having worked at New Deal Strategies leading campaign communications for Congressman Jamaal Bowman, former congressional candidate Rana Abdelhamid, and the Women’s March, she’s no stranger to working with strong progressive leaders.Prior to her time working in communications, she spent four years in the U.S. House of Representatives where she worked on foreign policy, LGBTQ+ rights, anti-poverty initiatives, housing, health care, and climate policy. She also occasionally had to dodge the occasional coup attempt.

Natalia got her first taste of large-scale policymaking while working on electoral policy at the National Democratic Institute and serving as an Obama Fellow where she focused on international humanitarian law. 

Natalia got her professional start overseas in Islamabad, Pakistan, where she met lifelong friends collaborating on programs to combat gender-based violence and increase access to education, such as the Let Girls Learn initiative, and facilitating health care campaigns to fight polio in Pakistan. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Biomolecular Science and in International Studies from the University of Michigan.

Fun Fact: If one day, Natalia isn’t working in politics under the threat of creeping fascism, you’ll probably find her spending her time working as a music journalist or a tv writer.