Natasha Hicks
Urban Planning Associate, urbanAC
- Role
- Reimagining Wealth Fellow at The Maven Collaborative
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Natasha Hicks
Natasha is a design and policy consultant based in Los Angeles. A trained urban planner and architect, Natasha brings experience in a variety of design disciplines and is passionate about addressing the root causes of racial and gender inequity embedded within the built environment. Most recently Natasha worked as an Associate Director with the Maven Collaborative, applying her housing, policy, and design expertise to Maven\'s racial and gender wealth inequality initiatives. Natasha also spent several years in the public sector applying her interdisciplinary skillset to redesign systems, policies, and harmful mental models. As a Government Innovation Fellow, she worked with the City of Detroit’s Housing Department to collaboratively design with nonprofit stakeholders a program for delivering coordinated housing stability services. Natasha also authored the City of Charleston’s first strategic plan for affordable housing, Housing for a Fair Charleston, and authored a strategic plan for public art for the Municipality of Tirana, Albania.Centering the experience of BIPOC communities is critical to Natasha’s practice. She has organized events elevating the voices of Black designers and urbanists including the Black in Design Conference at Harvard University and the Spaces and Places \'unconference\' convening which runs in conjunction to the National Planning Conference.Natasha is a graduate of the Master in Urban Planning and Master in Design Studies program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and received her Bachelor\'s degree in Architecture and Art History from Stanford University. Her work has been featured in Next City, NonProfit Quarterly, and Inquest.
Experience
Reimagining Wealth Fellow
Jan 2024 — Present
Education
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master’s Degree, Urban Planning and Design Studies (Risk and Resilience)
2016 — 2019
Stanford University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Architectural Design
2009 — 2013
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Autocad Architecture
- Vectorworks
- Photoshop
- Sketchup
- Hand Drafting
- Powerpoint
- Painting
- Sustainable Design
- Illustrator
- Revit
- Architecture
- Research
- Public Speaking
- Fundraising
- Social Media
- Event Management
- Community Outreach
- Nonprofits
- Autocad
- Drawing
- Blogging
- Indesign
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Sustainability
- Photography
- Microsoft Office
- Event Planning
- Editing
- Microsoft Word
- Graphic Design
- Creative Writing
- Social Networking
- Grant Writing
- Final Cut Pro
- Press Releases
- Dreamweaver
- Volunteer Management
- Social Media Marketing
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