Originally a user experience designer, Nat now uses her work to explore ways design can have positive social impact.

From 2012 - 2014 she was Co-Director of Design at the RSA, which included heading up the RSA Student Design Awards programme as well as co-founding the Great Recovery project. Before that she spent 14 years as a founding director of Airside, an award-winning cross-platform design agency.

She is Strategic Director of Machines Room,on the board of CAST and Blackhorse Workshop, and is a consultant to the RCA on the Future of Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing research project