Natasha Hicks

Reimagining Wealth Fellow

Natasha Hicks is a design and policy consultant based in Los Angeles. As the Reimagining Wealth Fellow at The Maven Collaborative, she applies her housing, policy, and design expertise to Maven’s racial and gender wealth inequality initiatives. A trained urban planner and architect, Natasha is passionate about addressing the root causes of racial and gender inequity embedded within the built environment. Natasha spent several years in the public sector applying her interdisciplinary skillset to redesign systems, policies, and harmful mental models. As a Government Innovation Fellow, she worked with the City of Detroit’s Housing Department to collaboratively design with nonprofit stakeholders a program for delivering coordinated housing stability services. Natasha also authored the City of Charleston’s first strategic plan for affordable housing, Housing for a Fair Charleston, and authored a strategic plan for public art for the Municipality of Tirana, Albania. Natasha is a graduate of the Master in Urban Planning and Master in Design Studies program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and received her Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Art History from Stanford University.