Speaking & Teaching
Speaking
Natalie’s selected invited speaking engagements:
UCLA School of Law, Featured Speaker, Careers in International Law, 2025
Global Philanthropy Forum, Panelist on Effective Social Enterprise, Redwood City, California, 2017-20
Aspen Ideas Festival, Featured Speaker, Aspen, Colorado, 2019
World Affairs Council, Panelist, Social Start-Up Success Stories, 2018
Belt and Road Conference, Understanding Accountability Mechanisms, Shanghai, China, 2018
Skoll World Forum, Accountability in Impact Investing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018
World Bank Annual Meeting, Technology and Citizen Engagement, New Approaches, Washington D.C., 2017
ABA Section on International Law, Panelist and Panel Sponsor, “The Role of Lawyers in IFI Accountability Mechanisms”, New York, April 2014
TEDx Speaker, Dare to Demand Justice, Cornell University TEDx, Ithaca, New York, November 2013
The World Bank Inspection Panel, Panelist and Conference Organizer, ‘A Conversation with the IAMs About the Promise of Remedy and Accountability,’ Washington, DC, September 2013 (at the Annual Meeting of the IAMs)
California State Bar Annual Meeting, Panelist: ‘Impact of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on the Extractive Industry’, San Jose, California, September 2013
Business for Social Responsibility, Featured Speaker, ‘Alternatives to Litigation’, San Francisco, September 2013
Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, Featured Speaker, Ithaca, New York, April 2013
Harvard Law School, Successful Social Ventures, Featured Speaker, Cambridge, March 2013
United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, Panelist on Access to Non-judicial Remedy, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2012
World Legal Forum, ‘Resolving Company-Community Conflicts’ Conference, Access to Remedies, The Hague, December 2012
Business for Social Responsibility, Panelist on Identifying an Effective Remedy for Human Rights Impacts, New York, October 2012
Stanford Law School, Panel Presentation: Accountability Counsel and Innovative Lawyering for Changemakers, October 29, 2011
UC Berkeley School of Law Speaker Series, ‘Holding Corporations Accountable,’ Berkeley, California, September 15, 2011
Annual Conference of the International Accountability Mechanisms, Keynote Speaker, Benchmarking Trends, Washington, D.C., June 24, 2011
NYU School of Law, Corporate Accountability, International Human Rights, and Development, New York, New York, March 2011
World Legal Forum Panelist on Access to Remedies, The Hague, December 2010
University of San Francisco School of Law, “International Institution and Corporate Accountability”, Continuing Legal Education Lecture and Training, San Francisco, November 2009
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Workshop on Corporations and Human Rights: Accountability Mechanisms; Panelist and Discussant, Cambridge, November 2007 (“Ruggie Principles Consultation”)
Sustainability and the Mexican Financial Sector, Panelist, “Lessons for International Development Finance Governance,” Mexico City, October 2007
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Development Accountability and Alternative Recourse Mechanisms, San Francisco, March 2007 (MCLE course)
Teaching
Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School, co-listed with Stanford Business School, Accountability for the Unintended Consequences of Impact Investing, Law and Policy Lab, with Paul Brest, 2017-18
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Social Entrepreneur in Residence Program course on Social Entrepreneurship, 2016; course teaching, 2024
Visiting Professor, American University, Washington College of Law (co-taught International Institutions and the Environment with Prof. David Hunter), Summer 2009, 2010, and 2011
Guest Lectures in Business and Human Rights Course at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (2011-2019)
Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Summer Session, co-taught International Law course, 2009, invited to return Summer 2010