Natalie Patterson can best be identified as a Teaching Artist, she uses her dynamic range of expertise to masterfully make tangible abstract concepts. Natalie has the unique ability to bridge ones personal experience with the larger cultural occurrences using art, performance and custom workshops. Over the last 17 years, Natalie has crafted time-tested approaches to fostering cultures of growth, curiosity, compassion, and integrity.

As a poet and educator, her work has taken her to a wide range of spaces. She has worked extensively in non-profit, higher education and with major brands like Sephora, Uproxx, The United Way, Summit, Darling Magazine and SoulPancake. Natalie speaks her mind, from inspiration to social justice she is equally inspired. She was the first female producer and host of the nation's largest poetry venue, Da Poetry Lounge, the President of Sister Support, a non-profit committed to women and recently completed a year long residency teaching poetry as a healing art to youth who are incarcerated. At the top of 2019, Natalie accepted a position with Art With Impact as a Workshop Facilitator for Movies for Mental Health. In the fall of 2019, Natalie was hired on as a Teaching Artist at SPARC, one of Los Angeles’ oldest and most respected art and activism organizations. Natalie is known for her integrity, passion, social activism and her ability to work with people of all ages, genders, races and cultures by showing up fully and inviting folks to remember that who they are is enough.

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