Nathalie Peña

Nathalie is the Operations Coordinator of the Fiscal Sponsorship Program and is responsible for executing day-to-day functions of the organization including grant management support and liaising with the FSP Program Managers. She previously worked at a climate justice nonprofit where she managed a small communications team that established the organization’s voice in the climate justice movement. While honing her leadership and project management skills, she also spent time helping youth organizers via resource building, communications support, and digital storytelling. Nathalie has worked on projects that centered queer BIPOC folks in the climate justice movement, most notably a storybook and podcast that was launched at an event in Bvlbancha (colonially known as New Orleans).

Nathalie is dedicated to creating a space of wellness and care culture centered around relationships. She promotes wellness and care by developing sustainable workflows that enable an organization to run more smoothly while also setting a work culture standard for her team that strays away from urgency. Her work focuses on sustainability and prioritizes the needs of staff and collaborators of the global majority.

In her free time, Nathalie is completing a Postpartum Doula training as a way to explore what care and transition looks like for herself and other communities, writing, and pole dancing. She is first generation Dominican-American and was born and raised in unceded Lenape Land (NYC). Now she’s based in Potawatomi Land (Chicago).