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Natalie Peña Peart is a 1.5 generation Caribbean-American, urban farmer, and multimedia artist and journalist working across video documentary, podcasting, and photography. She was the producer for the award-winning podcast The Stoop hosted by Leila Day and Hana Baba. Her first pitched and hosted episode about polyamory in the Black community debuted in 2021 and her “immersive” journalism at a cuddle party debuted in 2022. She recently completed a piece on psychedelics that only begins to explore this vast world. Her short film Black Gold played at DOC NYC U Festival in November 2022 and will play in the CUNY TV Presents: The Newmark J School in January 2025. Her latest piece, “Coming Home,” for the audio anthology Happy Forgetting, weaves together, immigration, home and the history of the steelpan.

Natalie made episodes for The Emergent Strategy Podcast hosted by adrienne maree brown, Sage Crump, and Mia Herndon. She is an associate producer at Pineapple Street Studios where she has worked on shows such as Ghost Story, The AMC+ Interview With the Vampire Podcast, Persona, and HBO Docs Club. Her writing on energy sovereignty in Indigenous communities, and Black-led farming models in West Virginia appeared in Yes! Magazine and her photography in Rolling Stone. Outside of audio, Natalie is a certified 200-hr. RYT and is currently in teacher training studying another 300 hours of asanas, sutras, and assisting.

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