Natalie Porter

Natalie is a skater librarian and writer living with gratitude on the traditional territory of the Tla'amin First Nation. She is the founder of the Womxn Skateboard History archive and Instagram page, and was interviewed in Thrasher magazine (May 2025) and Bust magazine (Winter 2023).

In 2003, Natalie wrote a thesis paper called "Female Skateboarders and their Negotiation of Space and Identity" from the perspective of women in skateboarding - a first in academia. Natalie is now a subject expert for the Smithsonian Museum's skateboarding advisory board, and a columnist for Closer Skateboarding magazine.

Natalie has been skateboarding since 1995 and became a librarian in 2009.