Natali Husic was born in the small village of Bar, in what used to be known as Yugoslavia. However, she did not grow up there. At only a few months old, her parents decided to leave their war-torn country for another — Zaire, known today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the time, she was one of the only foreign babies in the capital of Kinshasa.

In Kinshasa, she spoke Serbo-Croatian at home, but she was educated in a French school. Most of her life was spent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A few times, she and her family had to flee the country, mostly when foreign-targeted lootings occurred. The situation was particularly bad in 1997, when she had to move to Belgium for a year. She studied in a religious school there for a brief while.

At fourteen, again due to lootings, she was forced to leave once more. She would continue her studies in France, where her sister was already studying at university. She finished her primary studies there and earned her baccalaureate in science and economics.

Natali's dream had always been to discover the United States, and at the age of seventeen, she decided to go on her own to New York. There, she took English lessons at Kaplan School and also pursued her passions of theater and piano at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and the New York Film Academy. Art has always played a big role in her life. Born to a pianist mother, Natali herself has been playing the piano since the age of four. However, growing up, she realized that it was only a passion and not a vocation. So she decided to undertake studies in hospitality management, and she graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York before working in Dubai for the Bulldozer and Cipriani Groups. But once again, she realized that she had difficulties imagining her life in this field, and that something was missing in her daily life.

So Natali resumed her studies at New York University, where she earned a B.A. in international relations. Those few years were eye-opening for several reasons. Not only did she finally feel in her place, but on top of that she found herself immersed in a universe that explained to her where she came from and what she could realize in the future. During these university years, she never stopped working, either doing internships in think tanks or helping her mother and her nonprofit organization for children in Kinshasa.

Today, Natali lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, whose work at the French Embassy initially brought them to the city. After graduating from NYU, Natali started a position with Richard Attias and Associates as a project coordinator, where she works on events for the Future Investment Initiative, a nonprofit based in Saudi Arabia.