About

Nadia Khastagir is a narrative strategist, facilitator, trainer and graphic designer with 20 years experience supporting social change campaigns with narrative, visual and creative action strategies.

Nadia is a trainer and consultant with the Center for Story-based Strategy, after being on staff at CSS as the Senior Partnerships and Program Manager. With CSS, she has managed CSS’ flagship Advanced Training both in-person and virtually, and designed and managed capacity-building and strategy sessions for CSS’ partners and fellowship cohorts.

Nadia was a co-founder of Design Action Collective in 2004—a worker-owned cooperative which provides strategic visual communications for social justice—providing visual branding strategies, graphic design and consulting to hundreds of US and international organizations over 15 years. 

She is a member of The Ruckus Society's Creative Resistance/Arts Core providing creative action trainings, strategy and art. With Ruckus, Nadia has been part of action camp planning, agenda design for trainings, action strategies, and nonviolent direct action trainings.

In the early 2000s, Nadia was on staff at CorpWatch, which holds multinational corporations accountable, and supported the founding of CorpWatch India and the International Campaign against Coca-Cola, fighting for water and land use in India.

Nadia currently lives on unceded Lisjan-Ohlone land in East Oakland, CA, with her cat Gidget and her step-cat, Monkey Boy. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 35 years, where she has been a part of the ethnic dance community and progressive activist-artist community.