As a woman of color, she fuses food and social justice to not only report on restaurants and cuisine, but also to highlight the people, communities, and cultures that are its backbone. Calling out the discrimination, exoticification, gentrification, and Columbusing that so often occurs in the industry is crucial to her work. Her work has appeared in places like Edible Manhattan, Edible Brooklyn, Munchies, New York Magazine, Vice, Pacific Standard Magazine, Eater NY, Refinery29, Narratively, The Nation, and more. Natalie was born in Singapore and moved to West Texas when she was nine. She lives in Harlem with her daughter Amora and her fiancé Colton.