WHO IS NATISHA WASHINGTON?
NaTisha Washington is a Wilkinsburg Native with family from all over the county. She was raised by her mother - LaTonya Washington, who is the former president of the Wilkinsburg school board - and her father, a former probation officer and Amazon worker. With a family full of educators and community advocates, NaTisha grew up with a passion for helping and educating disadvantaged communities like her hometown.
After graduating from Wilkinsburg High school NaTisha went on to receive her Bachelors of Science at Penn State. Not too long after graduating she found her first full-time job at a former non-profit in the Beltzhoover area called Pittsburgh Works where she focused on Green space designing and Green education. Later on she found herself working as the Green Initiative Coordinator at Operation Better Block
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NaTisha then found herself as the new Environmental Justice Organizer at One PA, a state-wide community advocacy organization that focuses on mobilizing residents to make progress through policy change and political transparency. At this position, she found a passion for engaging with the community more to make change on an even bigger scale. She found herself dedicated to changing policy for the benefit of the communities she's grown to know and love.
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She's been a long-time advocate that is dedicated to ensuring that the communities she engages are being educated on the issues going on and fully engaged in solution-based plans that will benefit everyone who lives and is responsible for these communities.
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in Homewood where she collaborated with and educated the Junior Green Corp (a job readiness program for local teens), and worked with local residents mainly on environmental issues that they were dealing with. It was at this job that she developed a true passion for educating and helping residents with any problems they came to her with. But during her work she found many barriers in the way of her efforts to solve these problems.
As a Black woman who is a business owner of two consulting companies, she not only knows how to engage her community, but she is also experienced in working with all types of businesses and contractors that are involved in work that affects these communities. From developers to local nonprofits, she's worked to not only understand these businesses but uses her work and experience to improve them for the benefit of the community. Focusing mostly on their engagement and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), she wants to make sure all businesses are investing in and supporting local economies.
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