NATASHA DOLBY

Co-Founder and Board of Directors

Natasha co-founded Freedom Forward in 2016. She is a nonprofit executive and philanthropist with a passion for addressing social justice challenges. Since Natasha immigrated to the United States from Brazil as a scholarship recipient, she has been a tireless advocate for creating spaces where all voices matter. Her experience in the nonprofit sector over the last 3 decades spans the gamut of volunteer, grassroots staff, researcher, advocate, adviser, and board member.

Natasha currently serves as the Vice President for The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund managing a portfolio of social investments in human rights, racial justice, education, women and girls, democracy, and climate. Natasha serves on the Board of Asha Rising, a community-based organization responding to the need for shelter, safety, dignity, and care for women in India, and on the Board of The Freedom Fund, a global organization fighting modern-slavery. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she volunteers as a crisis counselor at the Crisis Textline.

Natasha was a Research Fellow with Stanford University’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice focusing on the domestic child sex trafficking in Brazil. She served on the Board of Human Rights Watch, where she chaired the Human Capital and Organization Diversity Committee, and on the Board of Beyond 12, an organization focused on increasing the number of low-income, first-generation, and historically under-represented students who graduate from college in the US. She has worked for the Robin Hood Foundation, Education Sector (American Institutes for Research) and Pacific Foundation Services, among others. 

Natasha is an investor in Impact Partners, financing documentaries addressing social issues; GameChanger Films, a film finance and content development company dedicated to narratives by and about women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, and people of color; and in How Women Invest, a venture capital firm that identifies high potential women-led companies. She is a graduate of The Philanthropy Workshop. 

Natasha received an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and an MA in Education from Stanford University Graduate School of Education.