Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Creative Director

CEO & Founder
Natasha founded Micro-Documentaries with a vision to make compelling cinematic filmmaking accessible to all social innovators. The resulting short films, solution trailers of sorts, have helped nonprofits and purposeful businesses in more than 30 countries advance their missions, raise funds, advance legislation and increase though leadership. Natasha regularly writes and teaches on topics related to storytelling, social innovation, and short documentary film production, and distribution for purposeful businesses and nonprofits.

Prior to Micro-Documentaries, she was CEO of Papilia, where she helped nonprofits raise millions of dollars with an innovative stewardship software that showed donors the difference their gifts make. She started her career in her native Venezuela filming adventure and nature documentaries distributed through the Discovery Channel. She went to film school at the University of Texas at Austin and received her Master’s degree in Journalism from Stanford, where she was awarded a Stanford Haas Center for Public Service fellowship to pursue documentary work in Nepal.

Natasha combines her passion for film with a lifelong commitment to the nonprofit sector. She has worked as a field and board volunteer with nonprofits in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the U.S. since she was a teenager. She co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Dalai Lama Fellows and serves on the Advisory Boards of Tools for Peace and the Biomimicry Institute. Natasha lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter, where she enjoys paddleboarding with sea lions and discovering the joys of the violin.

All posts by Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Creative Director

Holes of happiness

Growing up it was hard to imagine a place with more potholes than Venezuela. They were everywhere, deep and wide and waiting to wreak havoc on oncoming cars, bikers, and even unsuspecting pedestrians. I remember as children we used to be very amused when all of a sudden each pothole on the way to the […]


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Social Media on Purpose

How do you integrate social media into your organization’s strategy? How do you develop an over-arching plan and specific goals that are measurable, actionable, and realistic? What differentiates a social media campaign that effectively engages an audience and moves it toward action from a campaign that drifts off unnoticed into the noise of the Internet? […]


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Empowering mamas through mobile

Mothers in developing countries often struggle to get the best information for raising their children. Internet access is inconsistent, hospitals overcrowded, doctors expensive. In Bangladesh, Asha Rani felt in the dark when raising her first son. She didn’t know about the importance of breastfeeding up until six months, for instance, or about other immunization tips, […]


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On rain and passion

A few years ago I went gliding with my brother. Gliding, for those of you who have never done it before, is flying in an airplane without a motor. Natural updrafts replace propellers, and the quiet of the sky stands in for the drone of an engine. My brother is a commercial pilot, and I […]


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