Natasha is a multidisciplinary creative who wishes to spark in others the same curiosity about the human condition that motivates her work. Currently based in New York City, she is a writer and Creative Consultant who travels the world for inspiration. She speaks the language of creativity in sundry dialects and as a multilingual creative, Natasha is as comfortable and dextrous on screen as she is behind it. Her work pulsates at the nexus of the literary, travel, style, design, and the arts and culture: she has melded her mastery of these inclinations into a career sui generis.
Born in London, raised in Accra Ghana, currently living in New York, and frequently found in Italy, she graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, Behavioural Biology, a Bachelor of Arts in Dance, and a minor in English: A multicultural and interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of our world is, essentially, coded into Natasha's DNA, and applied to her work.
Natasha’s writing and aesthetic/visual work have been featured online and in publications such as CNN, Departures, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine (The Cut), Fodor’s Travel, and PAPER. She is a freelance editor for Condé Nast Traveler, and was a regular freelance contributor and creative director for eminent fashion lifestyle website Man Repeller. She is also a regular culinary travel contributor to Food & Wine. Natasha was responsible for launching, and served as the managing editor of Industrie Africa’s editorial arm, Imprint.
Natasha is a skilled profile writer who has interviewed and covered renowned artists including BAFTA-award winning writer-director Amma Asante (Belle) and Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), 2017 "Best Pastry Chef in the World" Cédric Grolet, Chilean celebrity chef Carolina Bazan, fashion designer Ronald van der Kemp, as well as the creative director of historic Swiss fashion brand Akris, Albert Kriemler.
She herself has been featured in the press on numerous occasions, by titles such as Architectural Digest, Glamour, Martha Stewart Living, Curbed, CNN Africa, Condé Nast Traveler, and Travel + Leisure . She has been an expert guest on several podcasts, including MTV News' Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen and On She Goes, a travel podcast produced by Pineapple Street Media and hosted by Aminatou Sow. An authority on culture, she has been invited to participate on panels including at one at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and has moderated artist talkbacks as part of the African Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
Natasha is also a Creative Consultant with an inveterate acumen for conceiving and managing creative projects. She helps individuals and brands find and tell their stories through sundry media, including creative and art direction, styling, production design, interior design consultation, brand narrative development, and digital “content” production. She has provided her expertise to individuals from television-famous psychiatrists and Oscar-nominated directors, to corporate clients such as Bloomingdale's and several tourism boards.
She writes poetry as yet another modality of storytelling and founded the blog, The Ecstatic Flash, a literary lifestyle blog in which she muses on the notions of beauty, truth, and living a life of wholeness in search of sophrosyne through the lenses of art, style, travel, gastronomy and the practice of mindfulness. She is currently writing a children's book and developing a podcast as well as two projects for television.
Natasha, a lover of language, is fluent in three Ghanaian languages (Ewe, Twi, and Ga), speaks and writes French, understands Jamaican Patois, and is currently enjoying the challenge of learning Italian.
Read more about Natasha's inspirations and her multi-limbic creative pursuits in her personal Biography.