Natasha Sadoff 

Natasha Sadoff serves as the Satellite Needs Program Manager for NASA Earth Action in the Earth Science Division at Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for a set of programs that identify and address user and partner needs across sectors and thematic areas: EarthRISE, the Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program, and Interagency Satellite Observation Needs (ISON) program.  

Ms. Sadoff is a geographer and social scientist who works at the nexus of environmental management, partner engagement, and Earth observation data. She has extensive expertise in making data more usable, actionable, and accessible and in helping partners, particularly new users from new communities, use NASA data to understand the environment and make decisions. Ms. Sadoff has facilitated partnerships among government agencies, the private sector, international organizations, NGOs, and scientific institutions to develop training programs, outreach strategies, and decision-support tools that strengthen environmental governance and community resilience.  

Previously, Ms. Sadoff served as the NASA PACE Project Applications Deputy Coordinator at Goddard Space Flight Center, where she led engagement activities and fostered partnerships to grow the PACE community and increase mission visibility. She built connections with decision-makers and PACE users across thematic areas through workshops, focus sessions, trainings, communications materials, and other engagement mechanisms.  

Before joining NASA, Ms. Sadoff was a Senior Research Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute. She oversaw a portfolio of projects focused on stakeholder-driven program design, strategic partnership development, and capacity building to ensure technical resources are accessible, actionable, and responsive to end-user priorities. She supported U.S. government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Energy, and NASA, applying these activities across topics such as air quality management, marine litter, solid waste management, and emergency response capacity.  

Ms. Sadoff holds a Master’s in Human Geography from Ohio State University, with a focus on development, environmental governance, public health, and climate change. She holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies and International Development from the University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. She also earned a professional certification in Non-Profit Leadership and Management from Ohio State.  

In her free time, Ms. Sadoff rides and trains her horse, Elena, in dressage.