Natasha Freidus

Biography

Natasha Freidus, Founder, is a social entrepreneur with fifteen years of experience applying human centered design for social good and a long-standing commitment to refugee and migration related issues. She is the founder and CEO of NeedsList, the world's first marketplace for communities in crisis. Natasha spent the majority of her career implementing participatory storytelling methodologies for social change organizations. In the autumn of 2015, her concern about the refugee crisis propelled Natasha to co-found a local solidarity effort near her home Southwest France, from which her vision for NeedsList emerged. In early 2016, Natasha to co-founded Prosper Community, a global consortium of partners and individuals who have developed the largest, publicly available database of migrant related social startups in Europe. Natasha also speaks regularly about the role of tech in the refugee crisis and blogs about refugee issues for the Huffington Post. Prior to NeedsList, as founder of Creative Narrations, Natasha consulted and developed training modules for a wide client base including HP’s Office of Global Social Innovation, the University of Arizona, and a range of federally funded coalitions for diabetes and obesity prevention. She is the founder of Mapping Voices for Equity, a Center for Disease Control’s “Community Champion. Natasha has a Master’s degree in Urban Studies from M.I.T. and a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University.