Hi! Thank you for being here. My name is Natalie, and I’m a writer, researcher, and visual artist based in Brooklyn.

I’m a recent Harvard graduate who has been putting my dual American Studies/Art, Film, and Visual Studies degree to use for the last four years as a freelance researcher, sensitivity reader, and ghostwriter for public intellectuals and Hollywood projects. 

Though most of my research has been focused on the history of liberation movements in the postwar United States, I’m fluent in a wide range of relevant critical frameworks and have years of experience teaching in museums and K-12 classrooms—i.e. practice breaking down complex concepts and histories for diverse layperson audiences. 

I also maintain an active photography practice. Since graduating, the bulk of my artistic production has been in analog photography, and from 2022-2024, I operated a small-scale film lab in Granada, Spain. From cyanotyping to good old 35mm, it’s one of my greatest joys to translate my travels (fifteen countries in the last two years!) and my community into something physical. 

I’d love to chat about any of the above! You can reach me at nataliejgale@gmail.com. 

Featured Work

The Burns Halperin Report, 2025 - I am currently a Curatorial Research Fellow for the 2025 edition of the landmark report assessing the representation of marginalized artists in museums and the international art market, funded by a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.

Lempicka, 2024 - I provided a series of research briefs to serve as the basis for marketing materials for the Tony-nominated Broadway musical following the life of Art Deco icon Tamara de Lempicka.

The Deviant’s War, 2023 (forthcoming) - I compiled an exhaustive timeline of the life of Sylvia Rivera, incorporating existing scholarly accounts, oral histories, and archival materials as well as the private archives of activist Randy Wicker, who was the roommate of Marsha P. Johnson in the last decade of her life. This timeline will serve as basis for the script of the narrative film adaptation of The Deviant’s War, which was a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History, to which I also contributed preliminary screenwriting.

We The Underground, 2022 (forthcoming) - I executed archival research for celebrated queer historian Dr. Eric Cervini’s second book, which traces the evolution of leftist paramilitary activism in the 1970s.

The Book of Queer, 2021 - I served as fact-checker, sensitivity reader, and historical researcher for a limited series on Discovery+ aimed at introducing youth to wide-ranging topics within queer history. The series recieved six Primetime Emmy nominations, one of which was for Best Nonfiction Writing Team.

Combahee’s Radical Call, 2020 - I organized archival research to create an interactive timeline of Black feminist organizing and curatorial practice in the Boston area as a part of Boston Center for the Arts’ exhibition Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (Re)Awaken Boston, working closely with co-curator Jen Mergel, Combahee River Collective co-founder Demita Frazier, and the Feminist Art Coalition.