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Nash
Natasha (Nash) Steinback (she/her) is a systems thinker who is committed to accelerating community and organizational impact in the non-profit, private, and public sectors. She believes in connecting and engaging people, organizations, and communities in new ways of thinking through strong thought leadership, strategic communication, and public policy skills.
branches of experience
For the past ten years, Natasha has worked with community-based organizations and government, helping to foster relationships with community members from all walks of life and creating spaces where they can share their knowledge and experiences to develop more inclusive practices and systems. Her work utilizes and merges community-based research and evaluation, community engagement, human-centered design, intersectionality theory, and behavioral insights to work towards more equitable and inclusive communities.
Natasha has considerable experience working with diverse non-profit sector stakeholders (i.e., community members, non-profits, funders and governments) in modelling and co-designing collective impact initiatives. Natasha also has significant experience working in the public service, designing and conducting research, program evaluation, strategic planning, and continuous improvement practices to support senior leadership teams in making evidence-informed decisions to inform real-world policy.
Natasha holds a Master of Public Policy focused on social and economic policy. She is a committed community-based research and engagement practitioner who offers a genuine passion for working with the community, organizations, businesses, and all levels of government to mobilize collective knowledge, understanding, and learnings to build more responsive organizations and systems. In her spare time, she volunteers as a Board Member at a local non-profit in inner-city Saskatoon and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of Regina.
DID YOU KNOW? Natasha is passionate about social finance and sees tools like social procurement as key to reimagining community challenges and creating more vibrant economies and communities. Natasha currently supports collective community research that aims to support budding social enterprises and to help local governments consider how to build community benefit frameworks into their procurement systems to generate greater social benefits for their entire community.