Work

Engagements

through Empiria Global

• Safeguarding at the Garden Skate Cup, Budapest, 18-20 September 2026

  Deliverables

  An operations manual, an organiser's statement, on-site safeguarding during the event and a post-event report, with the key documents in English and Hungarian.

Appointed and elected roles

voluntary or appointed, never invoiced through Empiria

• Chair, Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commission, World Skate

  Scope

  Coordinator from 2020.

• Olympic Games Paris 2024

  Scope

  Athletes' Liaison for skateboarding, and World Skate's Safeguarding Focal Point, designated to the IOC in April 2024.

  

• World Skate Games Asunción 2026

  Scope

  Athletes' Liaison and IF Safeguarding Designated Officer.

• Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026

  Scope

  Athletes' Liaison, skateboarding.

• Athletes' Liaison at World Skate events since 2023

  Scope

  Rome and Tokyo 2023; Dubai, Budapest and Italy 2024; Rome and Kitakyushu 2025; São Paulo and Rome 2026.

  

• Technical Delegate for skateboarding, Junior Pan American Games, Cali 2021

  Scope

  Appointed Technical Delegate; did not travel to the event.

• Director of the Skateboarding Committee and Board member, Federación Cordobesa de Patín

  Scope

  Representative of Córdoba on the National Skateboarding Committee of the Confederación Argentina de Patinaje, elected in 2024.

Photographs document the activities shown. They do not imply organisational endorsement of Empiria.

Founded

• Empilar, Pilar, Córdoba, 2009

  Scope

  A 900 m² public skatepark, free to use, a civil association since 2014 and never publicly funded. Two championships a year since 2014, around 24 editions; the team has grown from 10 to 35 people.

  

• Proyecto 50/50, 2019

  Scope

  Started when women made up less than 10% of Argentine skateboarding. It grew into technical courses for coaches, judges and women leaders, taught as a World Skate Expert in Argentina, Uganda (Kampala 2022, the first of these courses held in Africa), Mexico, South Africa, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Earlier: Costa Rica, 2012 to 2014.

  Follow-up findings

  Follow-up, February 2024: 90 participants from seven countries answered. 73% had no previous training in teaching skateboarding, and 46% did not know how associations, federations and Olympic committees work. Afterwards, 26 of the 90 held a role in a federation, an Olympic committee or an association, and 87% said the course moved them to start or restart a project.

  Documented work

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• Co-founder of OFS, Argentina's women's skateboarding organisation

  Scope

  Co-creator of the Latin American Women's Skateboarding Network, a directory of more than 32 projects.

Design that uses less

• A crest for the Argentine national skateboarding team, 2025

  A visual identity proposal for the Argentine national skateboarding team, from the MEMOS project “The visual language of Olympic skateboarding” (March 2025), made as a small design laboratory by David Hernán Sánchez under Natalia's direction. Flat colours and solid contrasts, with no gradients or effects: it prints in a single ink or in black and white, works with water-based inks, embroiders cleanly and stays legible from a 25 mm label to a flag. Its brand manual asks for recycled or organic-cotton thread and rules out metallic and neon colours. Its rights were released so that anyone can use it. A proposal, not an official mark of the Confederación Argentina de Patinaje.

  

  

  

  

  

Research and speaking

• MEMOS thesis, 2024, supervised by Jean-Loup Chappelet

  Scope

  “Pro-Olympic Influence: Redefining Skateboarding's Organizational Landscape Through World Skate's Leadership”. Two surveys, with 176 and 91 responses, and 11 interviews.

  

• Speaker

  Scope

  World Skate International Skateboarding Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 2019, and the First Urban Sports Congress of the Argentine Olympic Committee, 2024.

  

  

• Mentor, GSIC Global Mentoring Programme powered by Microsoft, 2025 and 2026

  Scope

  Featured in GSIC's “20 World-Class Female Leaders”.

  

• Published work

  Scope

  MEMOS thesis listed in the MEMOS catalogue of projects; courses delivered with National Olympic Committees and Olympic Solidarity in nine countries.