A lifetime educator and professional musician with a Master’s Degree in Music, Natasha currently serves as the Senior Partner of California Education Partners, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving public education in the state of California, especially for traditionally underserved populations of students and families. Its primary program, CORE, is a collaboration between Clovis, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Sanger Unified School Districts. A Teach for America Corps member and Coro Fellow, Natasha taught junior high school in the South Bronx, where she founded the school’s drama program and developed an early college English curriculum that emphasized inter-disciplinary writing and the arts. After returning to San Francisco, Natasha played a leadership role in several local initiatives in support of public schools, including Prop A 2006, Prop A 2008 and Prop A 2010. She now serves both as Executive Director of the Silver Giving Foundation and is a Senior Partner of California Education Partners. Natasha is currently the chair of San Francisco’s After School for All Council, the founding board chair of the Future Leaders’ Institute, and a Board Member of Children Now. She continues to perform professionally, and recently debuted her one-woman show at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco, “Learning to Breathe.”