Natasha Shields

Natasha leads Atlantic 57’s product team. She brings multidisciplinary experience in product, technology, and strategy to help organizations advance digitally and to scale high-growth startups with legacy roots. She previously managed product and engineering operations at The Washington Post and was focused on building and scaling the Arc Publishing platform during the last three years of her tenure. Prior to the Post, she served as CIO and National Director of Technology for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the second-largest U.S.-based actors advocacy organization prior to their merger with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). She holds a BA in Economics with a concentration in Computer Science from UCLA.