Natasha discovered cooperatives, Outlandish, and SPACE4 (in that order) in June 2022 while researching the worker politics of creative freelancers for her MA – a job title she’d been experimenting with since 2016. Two weeks later, she was dancing to garage at a SPACE4 party and applying for a role as their events and partnerships coordinator. She hasn’t looked back since.
She was over the moon to be working at the intersection of tech for good, cooperatives, progressive economics, and left-leaning local politics. When she was invited to join the cooperative as a member-director a year and a half later, she was more than ready.
Natasha’s role now spans many parts of Outlandish, including leading on business operations, supporting finance, and heading up client support and hosting. But her heart remains firmly with SPACE4 and running projects that support cooperative business development. She loves that her job includes CoTech as much as geeking out with Maddy about fairy-light placement and coming up with terrible (excellent) puns for signage and marketing campaigns.
When she’s not at SPACE4, Natasha can be found on long walks in Scotland, binge-watching TV dramas, or staring into space and wondering whether now is the time to restart her comics career.