Natalie Black

Natalie Black graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School in May 2011 with a Masters in Public Policy. While at HKS, she was a Fulbright scholar and Fellow with the Program on Criminal Justice Policy & Management. She led teams to Haiti to assess the impact of the 2010 earthquake on the criminal justice system, Sierra Leone to help evaluate the prosecution of gender based violence and advised the Counter-Narcotics Program of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan. Her co-authored final year Policy Analysis Exercise on transnational organised crime for The National Security Staff at The White House won the Belfer Center's Award for 'Best PAE' and she was invited, with her research partner, to present their findings at the United Nations in Vienna and the National Institute of Justice in Washington, DC.

Natalie is currently working for the New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent and Belfer Center Senior Fellow, David Sanger on a new book about President Obama’s foreign policy.