Behold Natalia!

Hello! I am an anthropologist, primatologist, actor, producer, writer, host and comedian. I have been a comedy writer and correspondent on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk on Nat Geo as well as a StarTalk All-Star podcast host. I was the co-host on Spike TV’s show 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty where I used my vast knowledge of primate behavior and fieldwork to judge contestants searching for “the world’s greatest hide and go seek champion”, Bigfoot. I also wrote and produced a web series with my Bigfoot Bounty co-star called Talking Shit with Dr. Todd and Natalia.

I was also a regular animal expert on Nat Geo Wild’s Everything You Didn’t Know About Animals. And I was a regular writer and host for Discovery’s DNews, Seeker, & TestTube. Additionally I have appeared on the TODAY Show, Fox News, Arise 360, HuffPost Weird News Podcast, and various podcasts & radio shows weighing in on different scientific subjects, from the evolution of boobs and butts to how pheromones play a role in human mating.

I began my career as an actress and I appeared in My Name is Earl, The Drew Carey Show, Better Off Ted, and Sex Drive. And when I was 25, I got hit by a ‘94 Ford Ranger. I survived, the truck did not. I decided to go back to school to become an anthropologist. I received her MA from Cal State Northridge (CSUN) in anthropology after studying the effects of deforestation on the Azuero spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis) in rural Panama.

As I finished grad school, I started pitching science comedy shows, but it turns out nobody was looking for a science sketch comedy show about primates in 2010. So a good friend of mine encouraged to make my own videos! That’s how I began producing my own content! Some of her popular videos include, “The Story of Boobs: The Breast Tale Ever Told” and “Play with Your Balls,” a ballsy, yet informative, testicular cancer PSA. I’m known for combining humor and science to help spread science literacy to the general public. I have also covered controversial social topics such as race, gender pluralities, and the spectrum of sexuality from an anthropological perspective.I’ve published chapters in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Primatology (including “The Copulatory Postures of Nonhuman Primates”), ACS’s Hollywood Chemistry, and Congreso de Antropología Panameña. I’ve also TA’ed primate field school in Nicaragua and Costa Rica and have given invited lectures at San Francisco Science Festival, NYC’s Intrepid, JREF’s TAM, NECSS, SUNY New Paltz, & Santa Clara University. She has taught anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University, Lehman College, and California State Dominguez Hills.