Natasha Simpson

Natasha Simpson is a freelance writer and investigative consultant in Victoria B.C. As a journalist, her features, investigations, opinion editorials, news coverage, and essays have appeared in the Martlet, The Capital, and the Globe and Mail. Her investigation into abuse and harassment allegations against the University of Victoria Women’s Rowing Head Coach earned a John H. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Student Journalism. As an investigative consultant, Natasha works with Firefly Consulting to assist individuals and institutions in crisis, notably working under Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond on the 2020 "Addressing Racism" inquiry into anti-Indigenous racism in B.C. hospitals that produced the "In Plain Sight Report." Natasha holds an honours history degree with a minor in professional writing and publishing from the University of Victoria.