Natasha Todi

Natasha Todi is a human rights advocate and data systems specialist with over six years of experience documenting violations and advancing accountability across conflict-affected and fragile contexts in Asia. As a formerly stateless person born in Nepal, her lived experiences have profoundly shaped her understanding of displacement, documentation, and the fight for inclusive citizenship policies. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, specializing in human rights, conflict, and data science. Natasha serves as a Program Fellow at Transparentem, an organization investigating human rights abuses within supply chains, labor rights violations, and environmental degradation and is a Social Justice Assistant for Georgetown. Previously, Natasha served as the Asia Pacific Program Manager at Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS), where she led strategic documentation and advocacy initiatives across Afghanistan, Myanmar, North Korea, Timor-Leste, West Papua, and Sri Lanka. She built and oversaw secure databases documenting sexual and gender-based violence, forced displacement, and transitional justice in collaboration with grassroots, national and international organizations in the region. Her notable contributions include co-developing the Afghanistan Memory Home digital archive, the North Korean Prisons Database, and the Samoa Ombudsman's Complaint Management System supporting grievance redressal in the Pacific island. Natasha has a background in history and international relations and is certified in Open Source Investigations (OSINT) by the International Institute of Criminal Investigations at The Hague.

Summer internship

In the summer, I worked as a consultant in Manila, Philippines with the Asian Development Bank's Fragility and Conflict Unit and Civil Society Engagement Unit, where I contributed to critical operational frameworks addressing fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS) and small island developing states (SIDS). My work involved developing comprehensive indicator codebooks and methodology guides that will enable systematic risk assessment across ADB's developing member countries, with specialized adaptations for Pacific island vulnerabilities. I conducted in-depth research on climate-induced displacement patterns for Samoa's Fragility Risk Assessment, created an interactive research dashboard analyzing critical mineral mining implications across Philippines, Pakistan, and Mongolia, and developed budget frameworks for establishing sustainable FCAS/SIDS data systems. This experience strengthened my expertise in data-based policy development and cross-cultural program design, skills directly applicable to my GHD specialization in conflict and data science. Additionally, I visited the Sasakawa Peace Foundation's Tokyo office to initiate collaborative work on scaling psychosocial disengagement programs for post-conflict settings, laying groundwork for my capstone project on trauma healing interventions.