Professor of Design, Design History and Criticism at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Natalia teaches courses in history, criticism, theory, design for social activism, transition design, complex systems, and semiotics of brand. She and her former co-teacher Elisabeth Patterson created the Parallel Narratives publishing program at Cornish. This on-going program is dedicated to reimagining a construct for design history from the student up, rather than from the historian down.